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.

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Dynamic modelling of fire coalescence	Biblio	save (4.5 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Lessons learned from a multidisciplinary investigation into the Waroona fire	Biblio	save (892.05 KB)	fire, fire impacts, scenario analysis
Developing and testing models of the drivers of anthropogenic and lightning-caused wildfire ignitions in south-eastern Australia	Biblio		fire, modelling, risk management
RUIM – A fire safety engineering model for rural urban interface firefighter taskforce deployment	Biblio		fire, firefighter, organisational
A model-data fusion framework for estimating fuel properties, vegetation growth, carbon storage and the water balance at hillslope scale	Biblio	save (2.69 MB)	fire, modelling
Understanding the variability of Australian fire weather between 1973 and 2017	Biblio		climate change, fire, fire weather
Climate Change Significantly Alters Future Wildfire Mitigation Opportunities in Southeastern Australia	Biblio		climate change, fire, prescribed burning
Fire Spread Across Fuel Types Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (450.6 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Improvements to wind field generation in physics-based models to reduce spin-up time and to account for terrain, heated earth surface	Biblio	save (1.21 MB)	fire, fire weather
Exploring ISO31000 Risk Management during Dynamic Fire and Emergency Operations in Western Australia	Biblio	save (553.18 KB)	fire, firefighter, risk management
The Vegetation Structure Perpendicular Index (VSPI): A forest condition index for wildlife predictions	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Climate Change Increases the Potential for Extreme Wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, 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
Improvement of drag model for non-burning firebrand transport in Fire Dynamics Simulator	Biblio		fire, modelling
Extreme fire behaviours: Surveying fire management staff to determine behaviour frequencies and importance	Biblio	save (414.7 KB)	emergency management, fire, fire severity
Increasing the comprehensiveness of bushfire risk management in Victoria through the planning system	Biblio	save (791.82 KB)	fire, planning, risk management
Fire in the south: a cross-continental exchange	Biblio	save (6.19 MB)	fire, indigenous communities
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
Simulations of the waroona fire with the access-fire coupled fire atmosphere model	Biblio	save (914.91 KB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
Firebrand transport from a novel firebrand generator: numerical simulation of laboratory experiments	Biblio	save (10.05 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Incorporating convective feedback in wildfire simulations using pyrogenic potential	Biblio		fire, modelling, optimisation
Reducing the risk of house loss due to wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, risk management
Sensing bushfire: Exploring shifting perspectives as hazard moves through the landscape	Biblio		communication, fire, resilience
Statistical Characterisation Of Wind Fields Over Complex Terrain With Applications In Bushfire Modelling	Biblio	save (30.13 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Deconstructing factors contributing to the 2018 fire weather in Queensland, Australia	Biblio	save (932.55 KB)	climate change, fire, fire weather
Making the landscape “home”: Narratives of bushfire and place in Australia	Biblio		fire, risk management
Models of buoyant plume rise	Biblio	save (1.3 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Predicting dead fine fuel moisture at regional scales using vapour pressure deficit from MODIS and gridded weather data	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, modelling
The contribution of turbulent plume dynamics to long-range spotting	Biblio		fire, fire weather, propagation
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
Use of remote sensing measurements and data assimilation techniques to improve estimates of landscape dryness	Biblio	save (1.64 MB)	fire, land management, soil moisture
Simulated Self-Paced Wildfire Suppression Work in Different Thermal Conditions	Biblio	save (13.55 MB)	decision making, exposure, fire
Development of an interface using penalisation method for improving computational performance of bushfire simulation tools	Biblio	save (10.13 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Developing guidelines for increasing the resilience of informal settlements exposed to wildfire risk using a risk-based planning approach	Biblio		communities, fire, resilience
Coupled fire atmosphere modelling annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (467.49 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Integrated urban planning for natural hazard mitigation	Biblio	save (2.41 MB)	fire, mitigation, risk analysis
Determining Threshold Conditions for Extreme Fire Behaviour Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (833.68 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Predicting merging fire behaviour in Planned Burning	Biblio		fire, fire severity, remote sensing
Changing Fire Regimes in Tropical and Subtropical Australia	Biblio	save (7.08 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
Fire-driven decline of endemic Allosyncarpia monsoon rainforests in Northern Australia	Biblio		environments, fire, land management