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.

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Changing Fire Regimes in Tropical and Subtropical Australia	Biblio	save (7.08 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
Fire spread prediction across fuel types: annual report 2018-19	Biblio	save (2.61 MB)	fire, fire severity, fuel reduction
Representing vapour and capillary rise from the soil improves a leaf litter moisture model	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, modelling
Human error during the multilevel responses to three Australian bushfire disasters	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, fire
A response to comments of Cruz et al. on: ‘Simulation study of grass fire using a physics-based model: striving towards numerical rigour and the effect of grass height on the rate of spread’	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Implementation of spatially-varying wind adjustment factor for wildfire simulations	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Simulation study of grass fire using a physics-based model: striving towards numerical rigour and the effect of grass height on the rate of spread	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Gendered responses to the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires in Victoria, Australia	Biblio		communities, fire, response
Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind speed profiles	Biblio	save (1.08 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Enhanced estimation of background temperature for fire detection using new geostationary sensors	Biblio	save (538.96 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Exponential random graph modelling of emergency collaboration network	Biblio		fire, response
Modelling emissions from prescribed burning using FULLCAM	Biblio	save (1.69 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
Aboriginal Peoples and the response to the 2019-2020 bushfires	Biblio	save (1.73 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, resilience
Bushfire survival preparations by householders in at-risk areas of south-eastern Australia	Biblio		communities, fire, planning
Calculation of critical water flow rates for wildfire suppression	Biblio	save (1.69 MB)	fire, firefighter, response
Variation in Eucalyptus delegatensis post-fire recovery strategies: The Tasmanian subspecies is a resprouter whereas the mainland Australian subspecies is an obligate seeder	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, land management
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Biblio		emergency management, fire, physics
Children, bushfire and climate change	Biblio		child-centred, fire, resilience
Urban planning: historical changes integrating bushfire risk management in Victoria	Biblio		fire, planning, risk management
Knowing wildfire risk: Scientific interactions with risk mitigation policy and practice in Victoria, Australia	Biblio		fire, modelling, policy
Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts – final project report	Biblio	save (1.94 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Mapping Bushfire Hazard and Impacts Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (1.82 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Numerical study on effect of relative humidity (and fuel moisture) on modes of grassfire propagation	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Biogeographical variation in the potential effectiveness of prescribed fire in south-eastern Australia	Biblio		fire, prescribed burning, risk management
Sampling and data analysis of field sites in NSW	Biblio	save (1.47 MB)	fire, fuel reduction
Experiences with the global impacts of climate change	Biblio	save (1.26 MB)	climate change, fire, fire impacts
Mapping how outputs from various Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC projects could be combined to address the issue of how to best manage fuel to reduce bushfire risk into the future	Biblio	save (3.47 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, risk management
Advances in the remote sensing of active fires: a review	Biblio	save (1.79 MB)	emergency management, fire, remote sensing
Determining threshold conditions for extreme bushfire behaviour annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (2.29 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
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
Physics-based simulation of short-range spotting in wildfires	Biblio	save (21 MB)	fire, mitigation, modelling
Simulated behaviour of wildland fire spreading through idealised heterogeneous fuels	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Evaluation of daily soil moisture deficit used in Australian forest fire danger rating system	Biblio	save (2.64 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Utilization of remote sensing techniques for the quantification of fire behavior in two pine stands	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Case study: use of remote sensing data to derive spatial and temporal explicit fuel accumulation curves across defence lands	Biblio	save (2.79 MB)	fire, land management, remote sensing
Effects of Oxygen Concentration on Radiation-Aided and Self-sustained Smoldering Combustion of Radiata Pine	Biblio		fire, fire weather, fuel reduction
Tympanic Temperature to Predict Core Temperatures of Firefighters Report	Biblio	save (690.93 KB)	fire, response
Efficiency of Individual Tree Detection Approaches Based on Light-Weight and Low-Cost UAS Imagery in Australian Savannas	Biblio		fire, Northern Australia, remote sensing
Drivers of long-distance spotting during wildfires in south-eastern Australia	Biblio	save (3.97 MB)	fire, mitigation, prescribed burning
Learning to learn from bushfire: Perspectives from Victorian emergency management practitioners	Biblio		emergency management, fire, organisational