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
Remote sensing of tree structure and biomass in north Australia mesic savanna	Biblio	save (4.38 MB)	fire, greenhouse gases, savanna grasslands
Threshold Behaviour in Dynamic Fire Propagation Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (1.3 MB)	fire, propagation
Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts: annual project report 2017-18	Biblio	save (2.18 MB)	fire
Determining the minimum sampling frequency for ground measurements of burn severity	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Understanding Post-Fire Fuel Dynamics using Burnt Permanent Forest Plots Report	Biblio	save (1.14 MB)	fire, fire impacts, land management
Initial growth of fires in eucalypt litter, from ignition to steady-state rate of spread: laboratory studies	Biblio		fire, response
Effects of prenatal bushfire stress on life history traits in humans	Biblio	save (6.95 MB)	fire, fire impacts, risk management
Experiments on the influence of spot fire and topography interaction on fire rate of spread	Biblio	save (1.63 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
You own the fuel but who owns the fire?	Biblio	save (214.41 KB)	fire, fuel reduction, policy
Physics-based modelling of junction fires: Parametric study	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Australia's future national heatwave forecast and warning service: operational considerations.	Biblio	save (1.17 MB)	communities, fire, heat transfer
Downscaling of soil dryness estimates: a short review	Biblio	save (1.56 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Fire, water and everyday life: Bushfire and household defence in a changing climate	Biblio		communities, fire, vulnerability
What are the drivers of dangerous fires in Mediterranean France?	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Analysis of the physical processes associated with junction fires at laboratory and field scales	Biblio		emergency management, fire, planning
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
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
Developing and testing models of the drivers of anthropogenic and lightning-caused wildfire ignitions in south-eastern Australia	Biblio		fire, modelling, risk management
Estimation of forest surface fuel load using airborne LiDAR data	Biblio	save (352.52 KB)	fire, modelling
Modelling the dynamic behaviour of junction fires with a coupled fire-atmosphere model	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Understanding the variability of Australian fire weather between 1973 and 2017	Biblio		climate change, fire, fire weather
Sleep restriction across a simulated firefighting deployment: The impact on acute stress responses	Biblio	save (24.15 MB)	fire, response
Sheltering practices during bushfire	Biblio	save (1.66 MB)	communities, fire, policy
Exploring ISO31000 Risk Management during Dynamic Fire and Emergency Operations in Western Australia	Biblio	save (553.18 KB)	fire, firefighter, risk management
Long-range spotting by bushfire plumes: The effects of plume dynamics and turbulence on firebrand trajectory	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
Integrated urban planning for natural hazard mitigation	Biblio	save (2.41 MB)	fire, mitigation, risk analysis
Retrieval of forest fuel moisture content using a coupled radiative transfer model	Biblio		environments, fire, modelling
Improvement of drag model for non-burning firebrand transport in Fire Dynamics Simulator	Biblio		fire, modelling
Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Increasing the comprehensiveness of bushfire risk management in Victoria through the planning system	Biblio	save (791.82 KB)	fire, planning, risk management
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
Evaluation and calibration of a land surface based soil moisture for fire danger ratings	Biblio	save (872.28 KB)	fire, soil moisture
Impact of Australia's catastrophic 2019/20 bushfire season on communities and environment. Retrospective analysis and current trends	Biblio	save (1.34 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
The spread of fires in landscapes	Biblio	save (1.58 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
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
An organisational response to Stage 3 Geography and the study of a contemporary bushfire event	Biblio	save (533.99 KB)	child-centred, education, fire
Modelling of radiant heat flux and rate of spread of wildfire within the urban environment	Biblio	save (5.16 MB)	fire, fire impacts, propagation