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
Firefighter tenability and its influence on wildfire suppression	Biblio		capability, fire, firefighter
Struggling to make sense of it all: the emotional process of sensemaking following an extreme incident	Biblio		emergency management, fire, organisational
Fire and heavy metals: when wild and controlled fires transform un-rehabilitated mining waste	Biblio	save (10.75 MB)	fire, fire impacts, land management
An optimization model for aggregation of prescribed burn units	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction
Cardiac autonomic impacts of bushfire smoke – A prospective panel study	Biblio		exposure, fire, fire impacts
Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour	Biblio	save (672.85 KB)	fire, fire severity
The potential for coastal dune de-stabilisation following 2015/16 wildfires near Esperance, WA	Biblio	save (1.24 MB)	coastal, fire, fire impacts
Why don't bushfire warnings work as intended? Responses to official warnings during bushfires in New South Wales, Australia	Biblio		communities, fire, warnings
Perceptions of risk and connection to landscape	Biblio		communities, fire, risk management
A review of firebrand studies on generation and transport	Biblio	save (7.65 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Should we leave now? Behavioral factors in evacuation under wildfire threat	Biblio		fire, modelling
Dynamics of litterfall and fine fuels after fire in sclerophyll forests and woodlands	Project		environments, fire, fire impacts
Historical background and current developments for mapping burned area from satellite Earth observation	Biblio	save (1.35 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Modeling Vorticity-Driven Wildfire Behavior Using Near-Field Techniques	Biblio	save (2.97 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
The Unquantified Risk of Post-Fire Metal Concentration in Soil: a Review	Biblio		environments, fire, soil moisture
Fire transitions across urban boundaries	Project		fire
Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves through the improvements of land dryness measures and forecasts: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.24 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
Development of seasonal fire prediction tools	Project		fire, fire severity, fire weather
Performance of fire detection algorithms using himawari-8	Biblio	save (1.27 MB)	emergency management, fire, fire weather
A Method for Validating the Structural Completeness of Understory Vegetation Models Captured with 3D Remote Sensing	Biblio	save (3.65 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
An investigation of the dynamics of fire-fire interactions using a coupled fire-atmosphere model	Project		fire, modelling
Literature review: modelling and simulation of flow over tree canopies	Biblio	save (943.19 KB)	environments, fire, fire weather
A Statistical Approach to Understanding Canopy Winds over Complex Terrain	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Carbon loss from planned fires in southeastern Australian dry Eucalyptus forests	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction
The Australian Flammability Monitoring System	Biblio	save (805.45 KB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
Quantifying dynamic fire behaviour phenomena using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle technology	Biblio	save (2.14 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Risk perception, preparedness and response of livestock producers to bushfires: a South Australian case study	Biblio	save (109.26 KB)	animals, fire, risk management
A fuel moisture content and flammability monitoring methodology for continental Australia based on optical remote sensing	Biblio		emergency management, fire, savanna grasslands
Mitigating the Effects of Severe Fires, Floods and Heatwaves Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (1.12 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
Fuels3D - final project report	Biblio	save (2.21 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Simulating boundary-layer rolls with a numerical weather prediction model	Biblio		fire, modelling
Understanding Wildfire Patterns in the South-Eastern Australia	Biblio	save (6 MB)	fire, modelling, risk management
Taking fire: the historical and contemporary politics of Indigenous burning in Australia and the western United States	Project		fire, indigenous communities
Investigating the effect of soil moisture, temperature and precipitation extremes on fire risk and intensity in Australia	Project		fire
Through the flames - quantitative analysis of strategic and tactical wildfire suppression	Project		fire, fire impacts, response
Towards fire-adaptive communities in Australia	Project		communities, fire, resilience
Modelling of tree fires and fires transitioning from the forest floor to the canopy with a physics-based model	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Estimating fire severity and carbon emissions over Australian tropical savannahs based on passive microwave satellite observations	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Factors influencing householder self-evacuation in two Australian bushfires	Biblio	save (4.68 MB)	communication, fire, warnings
Australian householders’ psychological preparedness for potential natural hazard threats: An exploration of contributing factors	Biblio		communities, emergency management, fire