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
Australian householders’ psychological preparedness for potential natural hazard threats: An exploration of contributing factors	Biblio		communities, emergency management, fire
A handbook of wildfire engineering: guidance for wildfire suppression and resilient urban design	Biblio	save (3.78 MB)	engineering, fire, resilience
A unified approach to fire spread modelling	Biblio	save (678.84 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Global vegetation gross primary production estimation using satellite-derived light-use efficiency and canopy conductance	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Using a worldview lens to examine complex policy issues: a historical review of bushfire management in the South West of Australia	Biblio		fire, governance, policy
Challenges for wildfire-prone urban-rural interfaces: The case of Melbourne	Biblio	save (460.84 KB)	fire, planning, risk management
Terrestrial Image-Based Point Clouds for Mapping Near-Ground Vegetation Structure: Potential and Limitations	Biblio	save (7.72 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, land management
Navigating scientific uncertainty in wildfire and flood risk mitigation: A qualitative review	Biblio	save (435.47 KB)	fire, flood, mitigation
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
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
Exploring 167 years of vulnerability: An examination of extreme heat events in Australia 1844–2010	Biblio		fire, vulnerability
Determination of Firebrand Characteristics Using Thermal Videos	Biblio	save (3.51 MB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
Large-eddy simulations of bushfire plumes in the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Modelling	Biblio	save (563.46 KB)	fire, forecasting, 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
Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (1.71 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Initiation of smouldering combustion in biomass	Biblio	save (14.67 MB)	fire, prescribed burning
A Seasonal-Window Ensemble-Based Thresholding Technique Used to Detect Active Fires in Geostationary Remotely Sensed Data	Biblio		emergency management, fire, remote sensing
Savanna fire management and bushfire and natural hazard scenario planning for northern Australia: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.72 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
Utilization of remote sensing techniques for the quantification of fire behavior in two pine stands	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Sheltering practices during bushfire	Biblio	save (1.66 MB)	communities, fire, policy
A Temporal Framework of Large Wildfire Suppression in Practice, a Qualitative Descriptive Study	Biblio	save (7.69 MB)	fire, firefighter, response
Analysis of the physical processes associated with junction fires at laboratory and field scales	Biblio		emergency management, fire, planning
Fire spread across different fuel types: research and utilisation – final project report	Biblio	save (5.48 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
We have not lived long enough: sensemaking and learning from bushfires in Australia	Biblio	save (9.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts
Physics-Based Simulation of Heat Load on Structures for Improving Construction Standards for Bushfire Prone Areas	Biblio	save (1.55 MB)	engineering, fire, physics
Modelling the dynamic behaviour of junction fires with a coupled fire-atmosphere model	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Sleep restriction across a simulated firefighting deployment: The impact on acute stress responses	Biblio	save (24.15 MB)	fire, response
You own the fuel but who owns the fire?	Biblio	save (214.41 KB)	fire, fuel reduction, policy
Established and emerging uses of predictive services in Victoria	Biblio	save (895.93 KB)	emergency management, fire, firefighter
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
Analysis of Variation in Distance, Number, and Distribution of Spotting in Southeast Australian Wildfires	Biblio	save (8.88 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Simulations of radiation heat flux on a structure from a fire in an idealised shrubland	Biblio	save (1.14 MB)	engineering, fire, fire impacts
A comparison of terrestrial and UAS sensors for measuring fuel hazard in a dry sclerophyll forest	Biblio	save (5.54 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, remote sensing
Fire, water and everyday life: Bushfire and household defence in a changing climate	Biblio		communities, fire, vulnerability
Investigating surface and near-surface bushfire fuel attributes: a comparison between visual assessments and image-based point clouds	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Determining the minimum sampling frequency for ground measurements of burn severity	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Making Sense of Natural Disasters: The Learning Vacuum of Bushfire Public Inquiries	Biblio		fire, organisational, preparedness