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
18 Aug 2015	Evaluation of Operational Models for Wind Variability Over Complex Terrain	Resource	save (253.23 KB)	fire, severe weather
31 Oct 2017	Three Minute Thesis: how short-range embers travel and burn surface fuels	Resource	save (69.49 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
23 Nov 2018	Fire surveillance and fuel	Resource	save (2.65 MB)	fire, fire severity
18 Aug 2015	An Emprical Model for Assessing Daily Bushfire Community Smoke Exposure Over Large Geographic Areas	Resource	save (508.5 KB)	exposure, fire
27 Aug 2019	Probability and consequence of water contamination from post-fire debris flow	Resource	save (6.57 MB)	fire
30 Aug 2016	The bushfire convective plume experiment - Nicholas McCarthy	Resource	save (4.38 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
30 Jun 2017	Improving our knowledge of the mental health and wellbeing of firefighters	Resource	save (570.31 KB)	emergency management, fire
07 Jul 2017	Building bushfire predictive services capability - Simon Heemstra	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
24 May 2019	Public health and natural hazards: New policies and preparedness initiatives developed from an Australian bushfire case study	Resource	save (84.72 KB)	decision making, emergency management, fire
02 Jul 2015	Billy Haworth - volunteered geographic information, community engagement & bushfire preparation in Tasmania	Resource	save (0 bytes)	communication, communities, fire
17 Oct 2019	Fuels3D	Resource	save (5.15 MB)	fire, fire impacts
08 May 2015	"Should I Stay or Should I Go?" Presentation	Resource	save (2.08 MB)	communication, fire
19 Sep 2018	Extreme fire behaviours: Surveying fire management staff to determine behaviour frequencies and importance	Resource	save (686.42 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
15 Sep 2015	Vicky Aerts - The effect of smoke from prescribed burning & bushfires on plant physiology	Resource	save (0 bytes)	environments, exposure, fire
04 Dec 2014	Optimising fuel reduction burning	Resource	save (605.15 KB)	fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
03 Jul 2015	Area Fire Management Groups Project	Resource	save (982.39 KB)	emergency management, fire
07 Sep 2017	Large-eddy simulation of neutral atmospheric surface layer flow over heterogeneous tree canopies	Resource	save (885.3 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
29 Jun 2018	3D fire simulation for Northern Australia	Resource	save (1.18 MB)	fire, fire weather, savanna grasslands
18 Aug 2015	Cost Effective Suppression on Campaign Fires	Resource	save (869.18 KB)	decision making, fire, response
19 May 2020	Q&A with ABC's Sascha Rundle - National Fire Fuels Science webinar: the thing about hazard reduction	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
23 Aug 2018	Queenslanders upgraded with cyclone research	Resource		cyclone, fire, resilience
27 Aug 2019	Physics based simulations of grassfire propagation on up-sloped terrain – A parametric study	Resource	save (831.32 KB)	environments, fire, fire weather
31 Aug 2020	Scenario Planning for Remote Community Risk Management in northern Australia	Resource	save (1.52 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, resilience
10 Apr 2019	AFAC national activities overview	Resource	save (5.85 MB)	fire, fire impacts
24 Oct 2016	Flammable grassy weeds	Resource	save (3.42 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, Northern Australia
08 May 2015	Sleep Deprivation and Stress Responses Poster	Resource	save (149.93 KB)	fire, response
18 Sep 2018	ACCESS-Fire to better understand risk	Resource	save (1.81 MB)	fire, modelling
15 Feb 2018	Research gives insights into community fire response	Resource	save (2.46 MB)	communities, emergency management, fire
27 Oct 2014	Modelling the fire weather of the Coonabarabran fire 13 January	Resource		fire, flood, mitigation
19 Sep 2018	Investigating the effect of soil moisture, temperature and precipitation extremes on fires risk and intensity in Australia	Resource	save (1.16 MB)	fire
29 Jun 2018	NAFM at 20 - challenges of fire management at QFES	Resource	save (525.46 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
29 Mar 2017	Can we predict bushfires from space?—Dr Marta Yebra	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
03 Jul 2015	NT NAFM 2015 Presentation	Resource	save (416.16 KB)	fire, Northern Australia
05 Nov 2018	PhD science on bushfire prediction modelling	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, modelling
13 May 2020	National Fire Fuels Science webinar - The science of hazard reduction (webinar 2 of 3)	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
03 Jul 2018	Queensland 2017 fire review and 2018 outlook	Resource	save (3.09 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
29 Jun 2017	Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain for bushfire modelling	Resource	save (2.33 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
18 Aug 2015	Mapping Forest Fuel load and Structure from Airborne LiDAR Data	Resource	save (314.38 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
31 Oct 2017	Prescribed burning and predictive services	Resource	save (4.46 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
23 Nov 2018	Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling	Resource	save (832.11 KB)	fire, modelling