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
Disaster landscape attribution: annual report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.22 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Integrating wildfire risk management and spatial planning – A historical review of two Australian planning systems	Biblio	save (2.03 MB)	exposure, fire, infrastructure
Estimating fire background temperature at a geostationary scale - an evaluation of contextual methods for AHI-8	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Linking local wildfire dynamics to pyroCB development - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (145.88 KB)	fire, modelling
Bushfire climatology in Victoria	Project		fire, fire weather
Physics-based simulations of grassfire propagation on sloped terrain at field scale: motivations, model reliability, rate of spread and fire intensity	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
A comparison and validation of satellite-derived fire severity mapping techniques in fire prone north Australian savannas: Extreme fires and tree stem mortality	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Simulated self-paced wildfire suppression work in different thermal conditions	Project		decision making, exposure, fire
Evaluation of the feasibility and benefits of operational use of alternative satellite data in the Australian Flammability Monitoring System to ensure long-term data continuity	Biblio	save (790.91 KB)	fire, modelling, optimisation
Lessons learned from a multidisciplinary investigation into the Waroona fire	Biblio	save (892.05 KB)	fire, fire impacts, scenario analysis
RUIM – A fire safety engineering model for rural urban interface firefighter taskforce deployment	Biblio		fire, firefighter, organisational
Developing and testing models of the drivers of anthropogenic and lightning-caused wildfire ignitions in south-eastern Australia	Biblio		fire, modelling, risk management
Development of an interface using penalisation method for improving computational performance of bushfire simulation tools	Biblio	save (10.13 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Use of remote sensing measurements and data assimilation techniques to improve estimates of landscape dryness	Biblio	save (1.64 MB)	fire, land management, soil moisture
Simulated Self-Paced Wildfire Suppression Work in Different Thermal Conditions	Biblio	save (13.55 MB)	decision making, exposure, fire
Developing guidelines for increasing the resilience of informal settlements exposed to wildfire risk using a risk-based planning approach	Biblio		communities, fire, resilience
Established and emerging uses of predictive services	Project		emergency management, fire, firefighter
Science in Motion: integrating scientific knowledge into bushfire risk mitigation in southwest Victoria	Biblio	save (211.26 KB)	fire, mitigation, planning
How does remotely sensed degree of curing and fuel load vary in grasslands and effect modelled fire spread?	Project		fire, remote sensing
Coupled fire atmosphere modelling annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (467.49 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Integrated urban planning for natural hazard mitigation	Biblio	save (2.41 MB)	fire, mitigation, risk analysis
The Heatwaves of the 2013/14 Australian Summer Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (1.59 MB)	fire, forecasting
Struggling to make sense of it all: the emotional process of sensemaking following an extreme incident	Biblio		emergency management, fire, organisational
Determining Threshold Conditions for Extreme Fire Behaviour Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (833.68 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Extreme fire behaviours: Surveying fire management staff to determine behaviour frequencies and importance	Biblio	save (414.7 KB)	emergency management, fire, fire severity
Increasing the comprehensiveness of bushfire risk management in Victoria through the planning system	Biblio	save (791.82 KB)	fire, planning, risk management
Domestic architecture and the perception of risk in bushfire-prone areas	Project		communities, fire, risk analysis
Cardiac autonomic impacts of bushfire smoke – A prospective panel study	Biblio		exposure, fire, fire impacts
Fire in the south: a cross-continental exchange	Biblio	save (6.19 MB)	fire, indigenous communities
Spatially forecasting coupled litter and root moisture dynamics for bushfire management	Project		fire, fire impacts, modelling
Simulations of the waroona fire with the access-fire coupled fire atmosphere model	Biblio	save (914.91 KB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
Incorporating convective feedback in wildfire simulations using pyrogenic potential	Biblio		fire, modelling, optimisation
Parenting after a disaster - experiences since Black Saturday	Project		child-centred, fire, recovery
Reducing the risk of house loss due to wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, risk management
Social values in bushfire management decision making	Project		decision making, economics, fire
Deconstructing factors contributing to the 2018 fire weather in Queensland, Australia	Biblio	save (932.55 KB)	climate change, fire, fire weather
Statistical Characterisation Of Wind Fields Over Complex Terrain With Applications In Bushfire Modelling	Biblio	save (30.13 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Scientific advice for the development of a suppression effectiveness model to support strategic bushfire risk planning	Project		decision making, fire, governance
Models of buoyant plume rise	Biblio	save (1.3 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling