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.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
07 Jul 2017	Three Minute Thesis: Youth Justice Conferencing for youth misuse of fire	Resource	save (526.52 KB)	child-centred, fire
07 Jul 2017	Building bushfire predictive services capability	Resource	save (9.97 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
31 Jul 2017	Authorities issue fire warning as fuel loads increase	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather, forecasting
02 Aug 2017	Three Minute Thesis: Kamarah Pooley - Showcase 2017	Resource		child-centred, education, fire
04 Aug 2017	Rural Fire Service warns landholders to prepare for bushfires	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather, forecasting
14 Aug 2017	Research insights for catastrophic fires	News		communication, communities, fire
30 Aug 2017	University of Wollongong and RFS survey	Press Clipping		communities, fire, fire impacts
31 Aug 2017	Amicus combines science and expert knowledge in predictions of bushfire spread	News		fire, forecasting, modelling
07 Sep 2017	A unified approach to fire spread modelling	Resource	save (4.06 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
07 Sep 2017	An organisational response to Stage 3 Geography and the study of a contemporary bushfire event	Resource	save (860.25 KB)	child-centred, education, fire
07 Sep 2017	Enhanced estimation of background temperature for fire detection using new geostationary sensors	Resource	save (1.11 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
07 Sep 2017	Navigating a bushfire disaster: a community's experience 2013 Forcett Tasmania bushfire disaster	Resource	save (1.99 MB)	communities, fire, fire impacts
07 Sep 2017	The Australian Flammability Monitoring System	Resource	save (1.49 MB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
07 Sep 2017	Large-eddy simulation of neutral atmospheric surface layer flow over heterogeneous tree canopies	Resource	save (885.3 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
07 Sep 2017	Youth justice conferencing for youth misuse of fire: a case study of collaboration	Resource	save (1.98 MB)	child-centred, fire
07 Sep 2017	Where do we put our dollars? Economic analysis of different bushfire management options in Western Australia	Resource	save (1.54 MB)	economics, emergency management, fire
07 Sep 2017	Thermodynamics of pyrocumulus formation	Resource	save (2.79 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
07 Sep 2017	A new quantitative smoke forecasting system for Victoria	Resource	save (1.36 MB)	fire, fire weather, forecasting
12 Sep 2017	Advances in fire software and education	News		emergency management, fire, multi-hazard
31 Oct 2017	Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts: developing spatial information on fire hazard for planners, land managers and emergency services	Resource	save (1.32 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
31 Oct 2017	Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling project: ACCESS-Fire	Resource	save (580.38 KB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
31 Oct 2017	Three Minute Thesis: rethinking fuel accumulation curves	Resource	save (288.24 KB)	environments, fire, risk management
31 Oct 2017	Three Minute Thesis: how short-range embers travel and burn surface fuels	Resource	save (69.49 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
31 Oct 2017	Prescribed burning and predictive services	Resource	save (4.46 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
31 Oct 2017	Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour: standardising data obtained from wildfires	Resource	save (567.23 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
31 Oct 2017	Three Minute Thesis: The burning question	Resource	save (97.66 KB)	emergency management, fire, response
31 Oct 2017	Mapping the fire landscape: active fire surveillance and fuel hazard assessments	Resource	save (869.85 KB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
31 Oct 2017	Fire spread across fuel types	Resource	save (1.1 MB)	fire, forecasting, modelling
14 Nov 2017	Awards for fire detection research	News		fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
24 Nov 2017	Updates from north Australia research	News		communities, fire, indigenous communities
05 Dec 2017	Lessons learned from the Waroona fire: AFAC webinar	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire weather, modelling
15 Dec 2017	Learning lessons from research insights: Black Saturday	News		communication, communities, fire
18 Dec 2017	Carbon abatement through better fire mapping	News		fire, Northern Australia, prescribed burning
18 Dec 2017	Finding fires faster	News		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
24 Jan 2018	Fire film shows historic lessons have relevance now	News		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
24 Jan 2018	The Day the Flames Came: Dwellingup 1961	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
30 Jan 2018	Fire management research at Imperial College, London	Blog		fire, modelling, propagation
15 Feb 2018	Research gives insights into community fire response	Resource	save (2.46 MB)	communities, emergency management, fire
03 Apr 2018	Australian Flammability Monitoring System: AFAC webinar	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire impacts
16 Apr 2018	Flammability modelling explored online	News		fire, remote sensing, soil moisture