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
Wind-terrain effects on firebrand dynamics	Biblio	save (2.05 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Controlled burn and immediate mobilization of potentially toxic elements in soil, from a legacy mine site in Central Victoria, Australia	Biblio		fire, prescribed burning
Pyrocumulonimbus: A Literature Review	Biblio	save (694.88 KB)	fire, modelling
Active fire detection using the Himawari-8 satellite - annual report 2019-2020	Biblio	save (859.87 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
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
The potential for coastal dune de-stabilisation following 2015/16 wildfires near Esperance, WA	Biblio	save (1.24 MB)	coastal, fire, fire impacts
Retrieval of forest fuel moisture content using a coupled radiative transfer model	Biblio		environments, fire, modelling
Non-Additive Effects of Forest Litter on Flammability	Biblio	save (518.9 KB)	fire, land management, modelling
Improvement of drag model for non-burning firebrand transport in Fire Dynamics Simulator	Biblio		fire, modelling
Think long term: the costs and benefits of prescribed burning in the south west of Western Australia	Biblio	save (207.03 KB)	economics, fire, prescribed burning
Advances in active fire detection using a multi-temporal method for next-generation geostationary satellite data	Biblio		fire, remote sensing, response
Firebrand transport from a novel firebrand generator: numerical simulation of laboratory experiments	Biblio	save (10.05 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Particle tracking and detection software for firebrands characterization in wildland fires	Biblio		fire, fire severity, physics
Persuasion without policies: The work of reviving Indigenous peoples’ fire management in southern Australia	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, land management
Evaluation and calibration of a land surface based soil moisture for fire danger ratings	Biblio	save (872.28 KB)	fire, soil moisture
What are the safety implications of dynamic fire behaviours?	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Demographic profiling: Victorian bushfires 2009 case study	Biblio	save (12.2 MB)	communities, fire, fire impacts
Sensing bushfire: Exploring shifting perspectives as hazard moves through the landscape	Biblio		communication, fire, resilience
Large-eddy simulation of neutral atmospheric surface layer flow over heterogeneous tree canopies	Biblio	save (1.28 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Predicting dead fine fuel moisture at regional scales using vapour pressure deficit from MODIS and gridded weather data	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, modelling
Psychophysiological relationships between a multi-component self-report measure of mood, stress and behavioural signs and symptoms, and physiological stress responses during a simulated firefighting deployment	Biblio		decision making, fire
Physics-based simulation of firebrand and heat flux on structures in the context of AS3959	Biblio	save (1.68 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Modelling of radiant heat flux and rate of spread of wildfire within the urban environment	Biblio	save (5.16 MB)	fire, fire impacts, propagation
From hectares to tailor-made solutions for risk mitigation: annual project report 2018-19	Biblio	save (834.62 KB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
Physics-Based Simulations of Flow and Fire Development Downstream of a Canopy	Biblio	save (9.63 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Continental-scale prediction of live fuel moisture content using soil moisture information	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, land management
Frequency of Dynamic Fire Behaviours in Australian Forest Environments	Biblio	save (985.4 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Satellite Remote Sensing Contributions to Wildland Fire Science and Management	Biblio		fire, remote sensing, risk management
Predicting merging fire behaviour in Planned Burning	Biblio		fire, fire severity, remote sensing
Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves through the improvements of land dryness measures and forecasts - annual report 2018-2019	Biblio		emergency management, fire, land management
Domestic architecture and the perception of risk in bushfire-prone areas	Biblio		fire, land management, risk management
The Unquantified Risk of Post-Fire Metal Concentration in Soil: a Review	Biblio		environments, fire, soil moisture
Walking together: a decolonising experiment in bushfire management on Dja Dja Wurrung country	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour - final project report	Biblio	save (3.32 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves through the improvements of land dryness measures and forecasts: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.24 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
Investigation of firebrand generation from an experimental fire: development of a reliable data collection methodology	Biblio		fire, fire weather, propagation
The effect of firefighter-delivered fire safety education on young people who misuse fire	Biblio		communities, education, fire
Gendered responses to the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires in Victoria, Australia	Biblio		communities, fire, response
Climate change effects on the frequency, seasonality and interannual variability of suitable prescribed burning weather conditions in south-eastern Australia	Biblio		climate change, fire, prescribed burning
The Australian Flammability Monitoring System	Biblio	save (805.45 KB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling