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
Evolution of an extreme Pyrocumulonimbus-driven wildfire event in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio	save (844.71 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
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
Studying leaf area density based wind adjustment factor in Spark	Biblio	save (3.49 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Determination of Firebrand Characteristics Using Thermal Videos	Biblio	save (3.51 MB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
Mapping Bushfire Hazard and Impacts Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (2.4 MB)	emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Global vegetation gross primary production estimation using satellite-derived light-use efficiency and canopy conductance	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: considerations in content, representation and design	Biblio	save (3.91 MB)	communication, fire, modelling
Surviving bushfire: the role of shelters and sheltering practices during the Black Saturday bushfires	Biblio		communities, decision making, fire
Meteorological drivers of the eastern Victorian Black Summer (2019–2020) fires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, scenario analysis
A Seasonal-Window Ensemble-Based Thresholding Technique Used to Detect Active Fires in Geostationary Remotely Sensed Data	Biblio		emergency management, fire, remote sensing
Navigating scientific uncertainty in wildfire and flood risk mitigation: A qualitative review	Biblio	save (435.47 KB)	fire, flood, mitigation
A unified approach to fire spread modelling	Biblio	save (678.84 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
A systematic exploration of the potential for bushfire risk mitigation with prescribed burning	Biblio	save (776.62 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
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
How do weather and terrain contribute to firefighter entrapments in Australia?	Biblio		fire, firefighter, modelling
Exploring 167 years of vulnerability: An examination of extreme heat events in Australia 1844–2010	Biblio		fire, vulnerability
A handbook of wildfire engineering: guidance for wildfire suppression and resilient urban design	Biblio	save (3.78 MB)	engineering, fire, resilience
Fire Risk Assessment of Combustible Exterior Cladding Using a Collective Numerical Database	Biblio	save (3.03 MB)	fire, infrastructure, risk management
Dynamic modelling of fire coalescence	Biblio	save (4.5 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Analysis of Variation in Distance, Number, and Distribution of Spotting in Southeast Australian Wildfires	Biblio	save (8.88 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Established and emerging uses of predictive services in Victoria	Biblio	save (895.93 KB)	emergency management, fire, firefighter
Improvements to wind field generation in physics-based models to reduce spin-up time and to account for terrain, heated earth surface	Biblio	save (1.21 MB)	fire, fire weather
Methods for background temperature estimation in the context of active fire detection	Biblio	save (22.24 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
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
The Vegetation Structure Perpendicular Index (VSPI): A forest condition index for wildlife predictions	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Integrating bushfire risk reduction and statutory mechanisms in South Australia	Biblio	save (753.84 KB)	fire, mitigation, modelling
Downscaling of soil dryness estimates: a short review	Biblio	save (1.56 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Making Sense of Natural Disasters: The Learning Vacuum of Bushfire Public Inquiries	Biblio		fire, organisational, preparedness
Fuels3D: annual project report 2017-18	Biblio	save (1004.83 KB)	fire
Self-evacuation archetypes in Australian bushfire	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Recirculation regions downstream of a canopy on a hill	Biblio	save (1.57 MB)	fire, land management, planning
Analysis of the physical processes associated with junction fires at laboratory and field scales	Biblio		emergency management, fire, planning
A Live Fuel Moisture Content Product from Landsat TM Satellite Time Series for Implementation in Fire Behavior Models	Biblio	save (4.32 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, remote sensing
Terrestrial Laser Scanning: an operational tool for fuel hazard mapping?	Biblio		fire, prescribed burning, remote sensing
Estimating fire background temperature at a geostationary scale - an evaluation of contextual methods for AHI-8	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
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
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
The role of extreme value analysis to enhance defendable space for construction practice and planning in bushfire prone environments - peer viewed	Biblio	save (703.25 KB)	fire, infrastructure, planning