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
31 Oct 2017	Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour: standardising data obtained from wildfires	Resource	save (567.23 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
18 Aug 2015	Evaluation of Operational Models for Wind Variability Over Complex Terrain	Resource	save (253.23 KB)	fire, severe weather
31 Aug 2016	Southern Australia Seasonal Bushfire Outlook 2016	Resource	save (1.03 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
01 Jun 2020	Q&A with Prof Mike Clarke - National Fire Fuels Science webinar: the science of hazard reduction	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
23 Nov 2018	Spot-fire project: research and utilisation	Resource	save (1.26 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
29 Jun 2017	Fuels3D: what's the point?	Resource	save (4.38 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
27 Aug 2019	Simulation Of Heat Fluxes On A Structure From A Fire In An Idealised Shrubland	Resource	save (495.46 KB)	decision making, fire
24 Apr 2019	Why do you value diversity & inclusion - Steve O'Malley from MFB	Resource	save (0 bytes)	diversity and inclusion, emergency management, fire
08 Sep 2014	The effect of the degree of grass curing on the behaviour of grassland fires	Resource	save (17.65 MB)	fire
24 Oct 2016	Mitigating the effects of sever fires, floods and heatwaves through improvement to land dryness measures and forecasts	Resource	save (3.12 MB)	fire, flood, forecasting
14 Jul 2020	Prescribed Burning Atlas launch - webinar	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, land management, prescribed burning
17 Oct 2019	Thresholds for dynamic fire behaviours	Resource	save (5.88 MB)	fire, fire severity
19 Sep 2018	Collaboration with women caring for country on Australia’s frontier	Resource	save (6.16 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, local knowledge
27 Oct 2014	Environmental thresholds for dynamic fire propagation	Resource		fire, propagation
17 Apr 2020	Submission NSW Independent Bushfire review	Resource	save (1.59 MB)	fire, fire severity
02 Oct 2018	Launch of the Southern Australia Seasonal Bushfire Outlook 2018	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire weather, forecasting
07 Jul 2016	Fire management in the north Tanami	Resource	save (2.15 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, Northern Australia
18 Aug 2015	Cost Effective Suppression on Campaign Fires	Resource	save (869.18 KB)	decision making, fire, response
20 May 2020	Webinar 3 (20 May): Ruth Ryan presentation	Resource	save (3.61 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
01 Sep 2016	You own the fuel, but who owns the fire? - Michael Eburn	Resource	save (328.64 KB)	fire, policy, risk management
07 Jul 2017	Building bushfire predictive services capability	Resource	save (9.97 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
18 Sep 2018	Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind speed profiles	Resource	save (1.08 MB)	fire, fuel reduction
08 May 2015	"Should I Stay or Should I Go?" Presentation	Resource	save (2.08 MB)	communication, fire
19 Sep 2018	Cloudy with a chance of fire	Resource	save (1.6 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
04 Dec 2014	Optimising fuel reduction burning	Resource	save (605.15 KB)	fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
05 Dec 2017	Lessons learned from the Waroona fire: AFAC webinar	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire weather, modelling
07 Sep 2017	Where do we put our dollars? Economic analysis of different bushfire management options in Western Australia	Resource	save (1.54 MB)	economics, emergency management, fire
03 Jul 2015	Area Fire Management Groups Project	Resource	save (982.39 KB)	emergency management, fire
29 Jun 2018	Curing research in the NT	Resource	save (1.42 MB)	fire, fire impacts, Northern Australia
06 May 2020	Webinar 1 (6 May): Sascha Rundle presentation	Resource	save (4.78 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
18 May 2017	Towards an improved land dryness estimate for fire prediction	Resource	save (5.71 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
25 Nov 2020	Better fire danger ratings	Resource		fire, fire severity, warnings
	Spatially forecasting coupled litter and root moisture dynamics for bushfire management	Project		fire, fire impacts, modelling
	Fighting fires and fatigue	Project		fire
	Parameterisation for a simplified short-range firebrand model from physics-based modelling	Project		fire, modelling
	Scientific advice for the development of a suppression effectiveness model to support strategic bushfire risk planning	Project		decision making, fire, governance
	The impacts of catastrophic wildfire on ecological interactions among regenerated vegetation, fungi and small foraging marsupials	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
	Established and emerging uses of predictive services	Project		emergency management, fire, firefighter
	Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: considerations in content, representation and design	Project		communication, communities, fire
	Fire surveillance and hazard mapping	Project		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing