Key topics

severe weather

Severe weather refers to any dangerous meteorological phenomena with the potential to cause damage, serious social disruption, or loss of human life.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
18 Aug 2015	Long-Range Spotting by Bushfire Plumes: The Effects of In-Plume Turbulence on Firebrand Trajectory	Resource	save (227.12 KB)	communication, fire weather, severe weather
18 Aug 2015	Impact of Vegetation Regrowth on Wind Direction Over Complex Terrain	Resource	save (250.9 KB)	fire, severe weather
18 Aug 2015	Understanding Progressive Failures to Wind Loads	Resource	save (193.39 KB)	engineering, severe weather
18 Aug 2015	Modelling the Fire Weather of the Blue Mountains Fires of October 2013	Resource	save (720.76 KB)	communication, fire weather, severe weather
18 Aug 2015	Evaluation of Operational Models for Wind Variability Over Complex Terrain	Resource	save (253.23 KB)	fire, severe weather
18 Aug 2015	Improving the Resilience of Existing Housing to Severe Wind Events	Resource	save (354.8 KB)	mitigation, resilience, severe weather
01 Jul 2015	Fire Australia Winter 2015	Resource	save (4.24 MB)	coastal, earthquake, severe weather
01 Apr 2015	Fire Australia Autumn 2015	Resource	save (8.64 MB)	fire, modelling, severe weather
11 Mar 2015	Newsletter 3 - fatalities and building losses	News		flood, heat transfer, severe weather
04 Mar 2015	When storms strike suddenly – supercell research	Blog		communication, forecasting, severe weather
11 Dec 2014	You can help wind research	News		cyclone, severe weather
22 Oct 2014	Managing severe weather: progress and opportunities	Resource		forecasting, risk management, severe weather
20 Oct 2014	Managing severe weather - progress and opportunities	Resource		risk management, severe weather
01 Sep 2014	Australia and NZ 'learning from adversity'	Press Clipping		communication, severe weather
21 Mar 2014	Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact	Resource	save (2.77 MB)	risk management, severe weather, warnings
	Rapid response report: study of heatwave impacts on NSW Northern Rivers region 2017	Biblio	save (1.02 MB)	recovery, resilience, severe weather
	Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact	Project		communication, fire weather, severe weather
	NSW March 2021 floods - data collection	Project		flood, infrastructure, severe weather
	Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves through improvements to land dryness measures and forecasts: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (1.11 MB)	forecasting, mitigation, severe weather
	The response of the southwest Western Australian wave climate to Indian Ocean climate variability	Biblio		coastal, environments, severe weather
	Model for assessing the vulnerability of Australian housing to windstorms - VAWS	Biblio	save (7.38 MB)	cyclone, emergency management, severe weather
	Heatwaves in New South Wales: how are residents and businesses coping?	Biblio	save (381.41 KB)	communities, resilience, severe weather
	The structural response and progressive failure of batten to rafter connections under wind loads	Project		engineering, severe weather
	Correlation of peak wind loads at batten-truss connections	Biblio	save (627.64 KB)	cyclone, engineering, severe weather
	Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact – final project report	Biblio	save (15.84 MB)	communities, fire weather, severe weather
	Centralised coordination of spontaneous emergency volunteers: the EV CREW model	Biblio	save (327.34 KB)	response, severe weather, volunteering
	The Excess Heat Factor as a metric for heat-related fatalities: defining heatwave risk categories	Biblio	save (529.12 KB)	risk analysis, severe weather, vulnerability
	Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events in Australia Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (3.05 MB)	engineering, severe weather
	Forecasting the impact of tropical cyclones using global numerical weather prediction ensemble forecasts: a Tropical Cyclone Marcia (2015) wind and rainfall case study	Biblio	save (454.57 KB)	cyclone, forecasting, severe weather
	Distribution of wind loads in metal-clad roofing structures	Biblio		cyclone, engineering, severe weather
	Natural hazards in Australia: floods	Biblio		flood, severe weather
	Characterisation of synoptic weather features often associated with extreme events in south east Australia and Tasmania	Project		emergency management, severe weather
	Secondary eyewall formation in tropical cyclones	Biblio	save (1.95 MB)	cyclone, severe weather, tropical
	Analysis of community responses to the 2017 heatwave	Project		communities, response, severe weather
	A characterisation of synoptic weather features often associated with extreme events in southeast Australia: Stage 1 – common features of recent events	Biblio	save (21.94 MB)	emergency management, fire weather, severe weather
	Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community risk	Biblio	save (5.46 MB)	communities, modelling, severe weather
	Meteorological drivers of extreme fire behaviour during the Waroona bushfire, Western Australia, January 2016	Biblio		fire, fire weather, severe weather
	Poleward Migration of Tropical Cyclone Activity in the Southern Hemisphere: Perspectives and Challenges for the Built Environment in Australia	Biblio		cyclone, severe weather
	Climatology of wind changes and elevated fire danger over Victoria, Australia	Biblio	save (1.67 MB)	fire severity, fire weather, severe weather
	Severe wind hazard preliminary assessment: Tropical Cyclone Debbie, Whitsunday Coast, Queensland, Australia	Biblio		cyclone, mitigation, severe weather