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.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
	Effect of weather forecast errors on fire growth model projections	Biblio		fire, fire severity, modelling
	Cultural burning and public sector practice in the Australian Capital Territory	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, land management
	Fighting fires and fatigue: sleep, physical activity, and physical task performance	Biblio	save (20.46 MB)	fire
	How do wet forests burn? : Fuels and fire danger in the world’s tallest flowering forest	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, land management
	Sheltering practices during bushfire	Biblio	save (1.66 MB)	communities, fire, policy
	Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind speed profiles	Biblio	save (988.48 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
	Methods for background temperature estimation in the context of active fire detection	Biblio	save (22.24 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
	Threshold Behaviour in Dynamic Fire Propagation Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (1.3 MB)	fire, propagation
	Assessment of potentially toxic metal contamination in the soils of a legacy mine site in Central Victoria, Australia.	Biblio		environments, fire, land management
	Integrating bushfire risk reduction and statutory mechanisms in South Australia	Biblio	save (753.84 KB)	fire, mitigation, modelling
	Mesoscale features related to the Blue Mountains fires of 17 October 2013 revealed by high resolution Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) modelling	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
	Encouraging evacuation: the role of behavioural message inputs in bushfire warnings	Biblio		communication, fire, warnings
	Recirculation regions downstream of a canopy on a hill	Biblio	save (1.57 MB)	fire, land management, planning
	Disaster landscape attribution: annual report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.22 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
	Experiments on the influence of spot fire and topography interaction on fire rate of spread	Biblio	save (1.63 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
	Victorian bushfire case studies - Black Summer final report	Biblio	save (55.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
	You own the fuel but who owns the fire?	Biblio	save (214.41 KB)	fire, fuel reduction, policy
	Determination of smoldering time and thermal characteristics of firebrands under laboratory conditions	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
	Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
	Fire, water and everyday life: Bushfire and household defence in a changing climate	Biblio		communities, fire, vulnerability
	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
	Lessons learned from a multidisciplinary investigation into the Waroona fire	Biblio	save (892.05 KB)	fire, fire impacts, scenario analysis
	Using discrete event simulation cellular automata models to determine multi-mode travel times and routes of terrestrial suppression resources to wildland fires	Biblio		emergency management, fire
	Hazards, culture and indigenous communities: socio-institutional modules for utilisation	Biblio	save (1.22 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, modelling
	Secondary Traumatic Stress in Postdisaster Field Research Interviewers	Biblio		communication, fire, recovery
	Estimation of forest surface fuel load using airborne LiDAR data	Biblio	save (352.52 KB)	fire, modelling
	Multi-scaled calibration of high-resolution burnt area and fire severity mapping - workshop report	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, fire impacts, land management
	Fire Risk Assessment of Combustible Exterior Cladding Using a Collective Numerical Database	Biblio	save (3.03 MB)	fire, infrastructure, risk management
18 Aug 2020	Towards a new disaster research centre	Blog		emergency management, fire, multi-hazard
29 Jan 2021	How heatwaves and drought combine to produce the perfect firestorm	Blog		fire, fire severity, fire weather
14 Feb 2019	Still Smouldering: reflections on the symposium	Blog		communities, fire, fire impacts
18 Dec 2019	As bushfires intensify, we need to acknowledge the strain on our volunteers	Blog		fire, fire impacts, volunteering
24 Jan 2019	Human dimensions and funding hopes	Blog		capability, fire
03 Apr 2020	1 in 10 children affected by bushfires is Indigenous. We’ve been ignoring them for too long	Blog		fire, indigenous communities, resilience
19 Nov 2019	A long fire season in store	Blog		climate change, fire, fire severity
05 Feb 2020	To burn or not to burn is not the question	Blog		climate change, fire, prescribed burning
07 Nov 2016	A great opportunity to network with colleagues	Blog		fire, fuel reduction
18 May 2021	It can’t all be insured: counting the hidden economic impact of floods and bushfires	Blog		economics, fire, flood
15 Mar 2016	Communities of interest	Blog		communication, emergency management, fire
04 Aug 2015	Collaboration is key	Blog		communication, economics, fire