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
Climate Change Significantly Alters Future Wildfire Mitigation Opportunities in Southeastern Australia	Biblio		climate change, fire, prescribed burning
Sleeping at work: not all about location, location, location	Biblio		fire
Incorporating firebrands and spot fires into vorticity-driven wildfire behaviour models	Biblio	save (3.04 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Climate Change Increases the Potential for Extreme Wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
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
A Broad-Area Method for the Diurnal Characterisation of Upwelling Medium Wave Infrared Radiation	Biblio	save (3.37 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
The Vegetation Structure Perpendicular Index (VSPI): A forest condition index for wildlife predictions	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
LiDAR Application in Forest Fuel Measurements for Bushfire Hazard Mitigation	Biblio	save (3.34 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Determining Threshold Conditions for Extreme Fire Behaviour Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (833.68 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Struggling to make sense of it all: the emotional process of sensemaking following an extreme incident	Biblio		emergency management, fire, organisational
Preventable residential fire fatalities in Australia July 2003 to June 2017	Biblio	save (1.62 MB)	fire, risk analysis, vulnerability
Parenting after Black Saturday: lived experiences since the 2009 Victorian bushfires	Biblio		child-centred, fire, recovery
Extreme fire behaviours: Surveying fire management staff to determine behaviour frequencies and importance	Biblio	save (414.7 KB)	emergency management, fire, fire severity
Fire in the south: a cross-continental exchange	Biblio	save (6.19 MB)	fire, indigenous communities
Cardiac autonomic impacts of bushfire smoke – A prospective panel study	Biblio		exposure, fire, fire impacts
Risk and protection factors for bushfire resilience and recovery - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (203.71 KB)	fire, recovery, resilience
Simulations of the waroona fire with the access-fire coupled fire atmosphere model	Biblio	save (914.91 KB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
Savanna fire management and bushfire and natural hazard scenario planning for northern Australia: annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (2.82 MB)	fire, fire severity, fuel reduction
Incorporating convective feedback in wildfire simulations using pyrogenic potential	Biblio		fire, modelling, optimisation
Reducing the risk of house loss due to wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, risk management
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
Models of buoyant plume rise	Biblio	save (1.3 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
The contribution of turbulent plume dynamics to long-range spotting	Biblio		fire, fire weather, propagation
Development of an interface using penalisation method for improving computational performance of bushfire simulation tools	Biblio	save (10.13 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
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
An optimization model for aggregation of prescribed burn units	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction
Pyrocumulonimbus: A Literature Review	Biblio	save (694.88 KB)	fire, modelling
Perceptions of risk and connection to landscape	Biblio		communities, fire, risk management
Towards comprehensive characterisation of flammability and fire danger	Biblio	save (1.57 MB)	fire, remote sensing, risk analysis
Disaster Landscape Attribution: Fire Surveillance and Hazard Mapping, Data Scaling and Validation Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (987.79 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Changing Fire Regimes in Tropical and Subtropical Australia	Biblio	save (7.08 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
Fire-driven decline of endemic Allosyncarpia monsoon rainforests in Northern Australia	Biblio		environments, fire, land management
Fuels3D - final project report	Biblio	save (2.21 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
The Theory/Practice of Disaster Justice: Learning from Indigenous Peoples’ Fire Management	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, resilience
Human error during the multilevel responses to three Australian bushfire disasters	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, fire
A review of firebrand studies on generation and transport	Biblio	save (7.65 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
January 2020 NSW bushfires study	Biblio	save (579.61 KB)	fire, fire impacts, response
Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind speed profiles	Biblio	save (1.08 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling