Key topics

fire

Fire is the product of a chemical reaction between fuel, oxygen and heat. Heat is necessary to start the reaction and once ignited, fire produces its own heat and becomes self-supporting.

Item	Type		Key Topics
Approaches for investigating wildfire impacts on catchment hydrology	Biblio	save (2.91 MB)	environments, fire, fire impacts
Cost effectiveness of fire management strategies in southern Australia	Biblio		fire, modelling, organisational
Simulating boundary-layer rolls with a numerical weather prediction model	Biblio		fire, modelling
Taking fire: the historical and contemporary politics of Indigenous burning in Australia and the western United States	Project		fire, indigenous communities
Causes and consequences of Eastern Australia’s 2019–20 season of mega‐fires: A broader perspective	Biblio	save (623.99 KB)	climate change, fire, fire severity
Investigating the effect of soil moisture, temperature and precipitation extremes on fire risk and intensity in Australia	Project		fire
Large-eddy simulations of pyro-convection and its sensitivity to mositure	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
Effects of Sydney coastal dry sclerophyll forest litter on fuels and fire behaviour in Hornsby shire	Biblio	save (2.29 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fuel reduction
Changing Fire Regimes in Tropical and Subtropical Australia	Biblio	save (7.08 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
Fire-driven decline of endemic Allosyncarpia monsoon rainforests in Northern Australia	Biblio		environments, fire, land management
Fuels3D - final project report	Biblio	save (2.21 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Fire transitions across urban boundaries	Project		fire
The Theory/Practice of Disaster Justice: Learning from Indigenous Peoples’ Fire Management	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, resilience
Human error during the multilevel responses to three Australian bushfire disasters	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, fire
Remote sensing of fuel to improve fire behaviour predictions	Project		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Utilization of remote sensing techniques for the quantification of fire behavior in two pine stands	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Effects of Oxygen Concentration on Radiation-Aided and Self-sustained Smoldering Combustion of Radiata Pine	Biblio		fire, fire weather, fuel reduction
Efficiency of Individual Tree Detection Approaches Based on Light-Weight and Low-Cost UAS Imagery in Australian Savannas	Biblio		fire, Northern Australia, remote sensing
Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Modelling	Biblio	save (563.46 KB)	fire, forecasting, modelling
Urban planning capabilities for bushfire: treatment categories and scenario testing	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, planning, scenario analysis
Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRF): utilities for WRF assessment and communication	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Development of a predictive model for estimating forest surface fuel load in Australian eucalypt forests with LiDAR data	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Effect of relative humidity on grassfire propagation	Biblio	save (1.42 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Biblio		emergency management, fire, physics
Physics based simulations of grassfire propagation in patchy fuel beds and slopped terrain - a parametric study	Project		fire, fire impacts
Investigating bird responses to fire in the Heathy Dry Forests of Victoria, Australia	Project		fire, fire impacts
Refinement and validation of the pyrolysis and firebrand transport sub-models for a physics based bushfire prediction model	Project		fire, modelling
Evolution of an extreme Pyrocumulonimbus-driven wildfire event in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio	save (844.71 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Sampling and data analysis of field sites in NSW	Biblio	save (1.47 MB)	fire, fuel reduction
Studying leaf area density based wind adjustment factor in Spark	Biblio	save (3.49 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Advances in the remote sensing of active fires: a review	Biblio	save (1.79 MB)	emergency management, fire, remote sensing
Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: considerations in content, representation and design	Biblio	save (3.91 MB)	communication, fire, modelling
How does remotely sensed degree of curing and fuel load vary in grasslands and effect modelled fire spread?	Biblio	save (5.01 MB)	fire, remote sensing
Meteorological drivers of the eastern Victorian Black Summer (2019–2020) fires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, scenario analysis
Assessment and calibration of fuel moisture sensors	Project		fire, prescribed burning
Evaluation of daily soil moisture deficit used in Australian forest fire danger rating system	Biblio	save (2.64 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Culturally appropriate mapping tools for informing two-way fire management planning in remote indigenous north Australian communities - peer viewed	Biblio	save (531.79 KB)	fire, Northern Australia, planning
Shallow Fire Literacy Hinders Robust Fire Policy: Black Saturday and Prescribed Burning Debates	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, prescribed burning
Terrestrial Laser Scanning: an operational tool for fuel hazard mapping?	Biblio		fire, prescribed burning, remote sensing
Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts