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
19 Sep 2018	Dry conditions prompt an earlier bushfire season	Resource		cyclone, fire, modelling
07 Sep 2017	A unified approach to fire spread modelling	Resource	save (4.06 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
29 Jun 2018	Review of seasonal bushfire outlook	Resource	save (1.1 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
06 May 2020	Webinar 1 (6 May): Sarah Harris presentation	Resource	save (4.4 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
18 Aug 2015	Towards Culturally Appropriate Fire Management in the Waanyi and Garawa Lands	Resource	save (147.24 KB)	fire, governance, indigenous communities
25 Nov 2020	Satellites to help show when the bush is ready to burn	Resource		fire, remote sensing, vulnerability
24 Apr 2015	How do residents in bushfire prone areas view the risk of their homes?	Resource	save (413.6 KB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
20 May 2020	Webinar 3 (20 May): Adam Leavesley presentation	Resource	save (4.22 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
12 Aug 2016	Estimation of forest litter-bed fuel load using airborne LiDAR data	Resource	save (242.06 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
23 Nov 2018	Fire spread prediction across fuel types by physics-based modelling	Resource	save (2.02 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fuel reduction
16 Dec 2020	AFAC Webinar 'Where are we going with soil moisture' 2020	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, land management
21 Mar 2014	Fire management training for northern Australia	Resource	save (1.22 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, Northern Australia
27 Aug 2019	QFES response to the 2018 fires	Resource	save (2.24 MB)	fire, fire impacts
17 Jun 2020	Q&A with Dr Valerie Densmore - National Fire Fuels Science webinar: the practice of hazard reduction	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
07 Jul 2017	Three Minute Thesis: attribution of active fire using simulated fire landscapes	Resource	save (132.79 KB)	fire, modelling
17 Apr 2019	Developing guidelines for increasing resilience of informal settlements exposed to wildfire risk	Resource	save (1.87 MB)	fire, framework
07 Aug 2014	Measuring the impacts of bushfires on human fatalities and building losses	Resource	save (3.25 MB)	engineering, fire
07 Oct 2019	Inquiries housed in database	Resource		decision making, emergency management, fire
18 Sep 2018	Multi-temporal and spatial remote sensing imagery to monitor flammability in Australia	Resource	save (3.56 MB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
31 Jul 2020	Bushfire lessons from cultural burns	Resource		fire, indigenous communities, land management
19 Sep 2018	Australian flammability monitoring system website	Resource	save (1006.31 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
30 Nov 2016	Southern Australia Seasonal Bushfire Outlook 2016-17: November update	Resource	save (951.14 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
03 Jul 2018	National intiatives - fire danger ratings, professionalisation	Resource	save (4.52 MB)	fire, fire impacts, savanna grasslands
13 May 2020	Webinar 2 (13 May): Neil Burrows presentation	Resource	save (4.9 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
18 Aug 2015	Impact of Vegetation Regrowth on Wind Direction Over Complex Terrain	Resource	save (250.9 KB)	fire, severe weather
07 Jul 2016	Kimberley grasslands curing	Resource	save (1.66 MB)	fire, land management, Northern Australia
09 Dec 2020	The Prescribed Burning Atlas: a new system to plan effective prescribed burns	Resource	save (872.25 KB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
29 Jun 2017	Simulated rate-of-spread of a grassfire propagating under a tree canopy	Resource	save (1.33 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
31 Oct 2017	Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts: developing spatial information on fire hazard for planners, land managers and emergency services	Resource	save (1.32 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
27 Aug 2019	The Australian Fire Danger Rating System	Resource	save (1.28 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
30 Aug 2016	"I’m going to be frightened out of my wits": Insights on psychological preparedness from the Sampson Flat fire - Danielle Every	Resource	save (970.63 KB)	communication, communities, fire
29 Jun 2017	The Australian Flammability Monitoring System	Resource	save (1.79 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
08 Sep 2014	Next generation models for predicting the behaviour of bushfires	Resource	save (1.12 MB)	fire, modelling
08 May 2015	The Effect of Extreme Heat on the Performance of a Simulated Firefighter Task Poster	Resource	save (566.54 KB)	fire, response
24 Oct 2016	Disaster landscape attribution, active fire detection and hazard mapping	Resource	save (1.9 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
27 Oct 2014	Next generation models for predicting the behaviour of bushfires	Resource		fire, modelling
19 Dec 2018	Mental health and research outcomes for the sector	Resource		emergency management, fire, resilience
04 Dec 2014	Fire coalescence and mass spotfire dynamics	Resource	save (704.99 KB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
03 Jul 2015	Northern Seasonal Fire Outlook	Resource	save (5.92 MB)	fire, forecasting
19 Sep 2018	From hectares to tailor-made solutions	Resource	save (1.04 MB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management