Key topics

fire weather

Fire weather are the conditions which influence fire ignition, behaviour, and suppression.

Item	Type		Key Topics
Models of buoyant plume rise	Biblio	save (1.3 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Thermodynamic considerations of pyrocumulus formation	Biblio	save (1.32 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
Australian Flammability Monitoring System Version 1.0: User feedback and priorities for further development	Biblio	save (688.21 KB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Natural hazards in Australia: extreme bushfire	Biblio		fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
Fire coalescence and mass spotfire dynamics - experimentation, modelling and simulation: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (1.91 MB)	fire, fire weather, propagation
ACCESS-Fire: coupled fire-atmosphere modelling	Biblio	save (896.96 KB)	fire weather, forecasting, modelling
Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind speed profiles	Biblio	save (1.08 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
What are the drivers of dangerous fires in Mediterranean France?	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Fire Danger Indices: Current Limitations and a Pathway to Better Indices	Biblio	save (849.01 KB)	fire weather
Frequency of Dynamic Fire Behaviours in Australian Forest Environments	Biblio	save (985.4 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact: Annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (2.07 MB)	fire weather, forecasting, severe weather
A lidar-derived fuel map for the ACT	Biblio	save (2.82 MB)	emergency management, fire weather, fuel reduction
Active fires: Early fire detection and mapping using HIMAWARI-8 Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (810.69 KB)	fire weather, forecasting, scenario analysis
Large-eddy simulations of bushfire plumes in the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
National Fire Danger Rating System Probabalistic Framework: year three report	Biblio	save (1.19 MB)	fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
Geographic Patterns of Fire Severity Following an Extreme Eucalyptus Forest Fire in Southern Australia: 2013 Forcett-Dunalley Fire	Biblio	save (8 MB)	fire, fire weather, remote sensing
The bushfire convective plume experiment: mobile radar observations of pyro-convection from the Mt Bolton fire, 2016	Biblio	save (199.8 KB)	fire impacts, fire weather, modelling
Effects of Oxygen Concentration on Radiation-Aided and Self-sustained Smoldering Combustion of Radiata Pine	Biblio		fire, fire weather, fuel reduction
Investigation of firebrand production during prescribed fires conducted in a pine forest	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Curvature effects in the dynamic propagation of wildfires	Biblio		fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling	Project		fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
Modelling wind direction distributions using a diagnostic model in the context of probabilistic fire spread prediction	Biblio	save (9.25 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
Long-range spotting by bushfire plumes: The effects of plume dynamics and turbulence on firebrand trajectory	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
Methods for background temperature estimation in the context of active fire detection	Biblio	save (22.24 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Meteorological drivers of extreme fire behaviour during the Waroona bushfire, Western Australia, January 2016	Biblio		fire, fire weather, severe weather
Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling: ACCESS-Fire – annual report 2019-2020	Biblio	save (2.21 MB)	fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
Estimating Fire Background Temperature at a Geostationary Scale—An Evaluation of Contextual Methods for AHI-8	Biblio		fire impacts, fire weather, risk management
Active fire detection using the Himawari-8 satellite - annual report 2018-19	Biblio	save (952.36 KB)	fire weather, forecasting, scenario analysis
A Statistical Approach to Understanding Canopy Winds over Complex Terrain	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Improvements to wind field generation in physics-based models to reduce spin-up time and to account for terrain, heated earth surface	Biblio	save (1.21 MB)	fire, fire weather
Climate Change Increases the Potential for Extreme Wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Project		fire, fire severity, fire weather
The Sydney 2014 forecast demonstration project - a step from research to operations - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (501.84 KB)	fire weather, forecasting
Experiments on the influence of spot fire and topography interaction on fire rate of spread	Biblio	save (1.63 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Bushfire climatology in Victoria	Project		fire, fire weather
Development of seasonal fire prediction tools	Project		fire, fire severity, fire weather
Fire coalescence and mass spot fire dynamics: experimentation, modelling and simulation - Annual project report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (1.03 MB)	fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
The role of weather, past fire and topography in crown fire occurrence in eastern Australia	Biblio		fire impacts, fire weather, prescribed burning
Climatology of wind changes and elevated fire danger over Victoria, Australia	Biblio	save (1.67 MB)	fire severity, fire weather, severe weather
Plume and air quality modelling	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire weather