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
Experiences with the global impacts of climate change	Biblio	save (1.26 MB)	climate change, fire, fire impacts
Experiences of sheltering during the Black Saturday bushfires: Implications for policy and research	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, vulnerability
A moveable beast: subjective influence of human-animal relationships on risk perception and risk behaviour during bushfire threat	Biblio		animals, decision making, fire
Determination of Firebrand Characteristics Using Thermal Videos	Biblio	save (3.51 MB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRFs): utilities for WRF assessment and communication - Black Summer final report	Biblio	save (2.01 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Determining threshold conditions for extreme bushfire behaviour annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (2.29 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
2009 Black Saturday and other large fire events - moisture content project	Project		fire, fire weather, soil moisture
Physics-based simulation of short-range spotting in wildfires	Biblio	save (21 MB)	fire, mitigation, modelling
A Seasonal-Window Ensemble-Based Thresholding Technique Used to Detect Active Fires in Geostationary Remotely Sensed Data	Biblio		emergency management, fire, remote sensing
Using Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies to support aerial firefighting	Biblio	save (2.69 MB)	fire, fire weather, remote sensing
The Stress of Firefighting Report	Biblio	save (620.18 KB)	fire, response
Simulating the effectiveness of prescribed burning at altering wildfire behaviour in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
Reducing bushfire risk to vulnerable community members through health and community services agencies – business continuity approach	Biblio	save (687.64 KB)	communities, emergency management, fire
Mapping and understanding bushfire and natural hazard vulnerability and risks at the institutional scale: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (2.01 MB)	fire, risk analysis, vulnerability
Towards fire-adaptive communities in Australia	Project		communities, fire, resilience
Physics-based simulations of grassfire propagation on sloped terrain at field scale: flame dynamics, mode of fire propagation and heat fluxes	Biblio	save (11.45 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Kinetics of pyrolysis of litter materials from pine and eucalyptus forests	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, propagation
Statistical models for the location of lightning caused wildfire ignitions	Biblio	save (5.69 MB)	fire, mitigation
Black Summer Victorian bushfire case studies	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Assessing the utility of the TET-1 hotspot detection and characterization algorithm for determining wildfire size and temperature	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Modelling forest fuel temporal change using LiDAR	Project		fire, modelling
Incorporating firebrands and spot fires into vorticity-driven wildfire behaviour models	Biblio	save (3.04 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Analysis of Variation in Distance, Number, and Distribution of Spotting in Southeast Australian Wildfires	Biblio	save (8.88 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind speed profiles	Biblio	save (988.48 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
A comparison of terrestrial and UAS sensors for measuring fuel hazard in a dry sclerophyll forest	Biblio	save (5.54 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, remote sensing
How do wet forests burn? : Fuels and fire danger in the world’s tallest flowering forest	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, land management
Assessment of potentially toxic metal contamination in the soils of a legacy mine site in Central Victoria, Australia.	Biblio		environments, fire, land management
Comparison of soil wetness from multiple models over Australia with observations	Biblio		fire, flood, remote sensing
Post-inquiry sensemaking: the case of the ‘Black Saturday’ bushfires	Biblio		fire, organisational, preparedness
Emerging technologies for estimating fuel hazard	Biblio	save (2.85 MB)	capability, fire, remote sensing
Disaster landscape attribution: fire surveillance and hazard mapping, data scaling and validation: Annual project report	Biblio	save (1.54 MB)	fire, land management, remote sensing
Encouraging evacuation: the role of behavioural message inputs in bushfire warnings	Biblio		communication, fire, warnings
“Should I Stay or Should I Go?” Defining the Preparatory Conditions in Support of Active Defence for Different Fire Danger Ratings	Biblio		communication, fire
Risk communications in Victoria	Project		communication, communities, fire
Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (1.52 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Linking local wildfire dynamics to pyroCB development - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (145.88 KB)	fire, modelling
A Live Fuel Moisture Content Product from Landsat TM Satellite Time Series for Implementation in Fire Behavior Models	Biblio	save (4.32 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, remote sensing
Determination of smoldering time and thermal characteristics of firebrands under laboratory conditions	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Victorian bushfire case studies - Black Summer final report	Biblio	save (55.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
From hectares to tailor made solutions for risk mitigation	Project		fire, prescribed burning, risk management