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
Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts – final project report	Biblio	save (1.94 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Global vegetation gross primary production estimation using satellite-derived light-use efficiency and canopy conductance	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Evolution of an extreme Pyrocumulonimbus-driven wildfire event in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio	save (844.71 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Initiation of biomass smouldering combustion in bushfires	Project		fire, prescribed burning
Mapping how outputs from various Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC projects could be combined to address the issue of how to best manage fuel to reduce bushfire risk into the future	Biblio	save (3.47 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, risk management
Sampling and data analysis of field sites in NSW	Biblio	save (1.47 MB)	fire, fuel reduction
Through the flames - quantitative analysis of strategic and tactical wildfire suppression	Project		fire, fire impacts, response
Navigating scientific uncertainty in wildfire and flood risk mitigation: A qualitative review	Biblio	save (435.47 KB)	fire, flood, mitigation
Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: considerations in content, representation and design	Biblio	save (3.91 MB)	communication, fire, modelling
Exploring 167 years of vulnerability: An examination of extreme heat events in Australia 1844–2010	Biblio		fire, vulnerability
Simulated behaviour of wildland fire spreading through idealised heterogeneous fuels	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
How does remotely sensed degree of curing and fuel load vary in grasslands and effect modelled fire spread?	Biblio	save (5.01 MB)	fire, remote sensing
Disaster landscape attribution: annual report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.22 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
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
You own the fuel but who owns the fire?	Biblio	save (214.41 KB)	fire, fuel reduction, policy
Integrating wildfire risk management and spatial planning – A historical review of two Australian planning systems	Biblio	save (2.03 MB)	exposure, fire, infrastructure
Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
“Should I Stay or Should I Go?” Defining the Preparatory Conditions in Support of Active Defence for Different Fire Danger Ratings	Biblio		communication, fire
Fire, water and everyday life: Bushfire and household defence in a changing climate	Biblio		communities, fire, vulnerability
Community preparedness and responses to the 2017 NSW bushfires	Biblio	save (561.7 KB)	communities, fire, fire impacts
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
Risk communications in Victoria	Project		communication, communities, fire
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
From hectares to tailor made solutions for risk mitigation	Project		fire, prescribed burning, risk management
Secondary Traumatic Stress in Postdisaster Field Research Interviewers	Biblio		communication, fire, recovery
Climate Change Significantly Alters Future Wildfire Mitigation Opportunities in Southeastern Australia	Biblio		climate change, fire, prescribed burning
Multi-scaled calibration of high-resolution burnt area and fire severity mapping - workshop report	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, fire impacts, land management
Estimation of forest surface fuel load using airborne LiDAR data	Biblio	save (352.52 KB)	fire, modelling
We have not lived long enough: sensemaking and learning from bushfires in Australia	Biblio	save (9.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts
Fire Risk Assessment of Combustible Exterior Cladding Using a Collective Numerical Database	Biblio	save (3.03 MB)	fire, infrastructure, risk management
Sheltering practices during bushfire	Biblio	save (1.66 MB)	communities, fire, policy
Climate Change Increases the Potential for Extreme Wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Methods for background temperature estimation in the context of active fire detection	Biblio	save (22.24 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Modelling wind direction distributions using a diagnostic model in the context of probabilistic fire spread prediction	Biblio	save (9.25 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
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
Modelling forest fuel temporal change using LiDAR	Project		fire, modelling
A guide to reconstructing cropland wildfires – data collection, collation and analysis for case study construction	Biblio	save (2.54 MB)	fire, modelling, scenario analysis
Investigating surface and near-surface bushfire fuel attributes: a comparison between visual assessments and image-based point clouds	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing