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
17 Apr 2019	Developing guidelines for increasing resilience of informal settlements exposed to wildfire risk	Resource	save (1.87 MB)	fire, framework
21 Dec 2020	Fire Australia Issue Four 2020	Resource	save (4.58 MB)	communication, fire, flood
07 Oct 2019	Inquiries housed in database	Resource		decision making, emergency management, fire
08 Sep 2014	Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves	Resource	save (1.7 MB)	fire, flood, forecasting
24 Oct 2016	Flammable grassy weeds	Resource	save (3.42 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, Northern Australia
08 May 2015	The Effect of Heat on Firefighters' Work Behaviour and Physiology Poster	Resource	save (9.71 MB)	fire, response
01 Jun 2020	Q&A with A/Prof Phil Zylstra - National Fire Fuels Science webinar: the science of hazard reduction	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
28 Jun 2019	National awards for our research	Resource		emergency management, fire, modelling
27 Oct 2014	The effect of the degree of grass curing on the behaviour of grassland fires	Resource		fire, propagation
19 Sep 2018	The problem of context – understanding the estimation of fire background temperature in South-Eastern Australia	Resource	save (1.6 MB)	fire
07 Sep 2017	Navigating a bushfire disaster: a community's experience 2013 Forcett Tasmania bushfire disaster	Resource	save (1.99 MB)	communities, fire, fire impacts
14 Jul 2020	Prescribed Burning Atlas Launch 14 July 2020 - Hamish Clarke	Resource	save (2.49 MB)	fire, land management, prescribed burning
03 Apr 2018	Australian Flammability Monitoring System: AFAC webinar	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire impacts
29 Jun 2018	Challenges and achievements	Resource	save (1.28 MB)	fire, fire impacts, savanna grasslands
29 Jun 2018	Queensland bushfire mitigation and overview 2017-18	Resource	save (1.9 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
18 Aug 2015	Disaster Landscape Attribution: from the Ground to Space: Validation of TET-1 and HIMAWARI-8 for Active Fire Detection	Resource	save (488.84 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
31 Oct 2017	Three Minute Thesis: rethinking fuel accumulation curves	Resource	save (288.24 KB)	environments, fire, risk management
27 Aug 2019	The Australian Fire Danger Rating System	Resource	save (1.28 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
12 Aug 2016	The Australian flammability monitoring system	Resource	save (362.43 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
24 Apr 2015	Bushfire risk perception: a study of the perceived vulnerability of domestic architecture in bushfire prone areas 2	Resource	save (412.98 KB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
23 Nov 2018	The savanna and rangelands monitoring and evaluation reporting framework	Resource	save (1.67 MB)	fire, fire weather, Northern Australia
01 Dec 2020	PHOENIX RapidFire	Resource		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
21 Mar 2014	Fire spread prediction across fuel types	Resource	save (1.49 MB)	fire, modelling, prescribed burning
02 Aug 2017	Three Minute Thesis: Kamarah Pooley - Showcase 2017	Resource		child-centred, education, fire
06 May 2020	Questions and comments from the audience: 6 May 2020 - The thing about hazard reduction: why is it so difficult and divisive?	Resource	save (183.43 KB)	fire, fire weather, prescribed burning
15 May 2019	Black Saturday bushfires: counting the cost	Resource		communities, economics, fire
07 Aug 2014	Community Members' Responses to Bushfire Threat	Resource	save (1.17 MB)	communities, decision making, fire
18 Sep 2018	Quantification of inter-regional differences in risk mitigation from prescribed burning across multiple management values	Resource	save (1.96 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
08 May 2015	Fighting Fires while Fighting Fatigue Poster	Resource	save (210.36 KB)	fire, response
04 Dec 2014	Threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour	Resource	save (610.43 KB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
19 Sep 2018	Resilient or suicidal giants: what types of fires do the world’s tallest flowering forests support?	Resource	save (1.8 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, mitigation
03 Jul 2015	Northern Satellite based Curing and Fuels	Resource	save (2.27 MB)	fire, fuel reduction
07 Sep 2017	The Australian Flammability Monitoring System	Resource	save (1.49 MB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
07 Feb 2019	Black Saturday ten years on – what did we discover?	Resource	save (240.52 KB)	communities, fire, warnings
07 Jul 2016	Fire management in the north Tanami	Resource	save (2.15 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, Northern Australia
03 Jul 2018	Outline of fire and carbon forum	Resource	save (3.45 MB), save (3.45 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
29 Jun 2017	Incorporation of spotting and fire dynamics in a coupled atmosphere - fire modelling framework	Resource	save (1.76 MB)	fire, modelling
17 Apr 2020	Submission NSW Independent Bushfire review	Resource	save (1.59 MB)	fire, fire severity
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