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 Sep 2014	Bushfire season 2014: Prepare yourself, prepare your family and prepare your home, warns the RFS	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather, warnings
17 Sep 2014	Bushfire worry as "worse than normal" fire season looms	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather
09 Sep 2014	Above average bushfire threat for Goldfields Midland region this summer	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather, forecasting
08 Sep 2014	Australia facing 'above normal' bushfire season	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather
08 Sep 2014	The heatwaves of the 2013/14 Australian summer	Resource	save (1.92 MB)	fire, forecasting
08 Sep 2014	Threshold behaviour in dynamic fire propagation	Resource	save (2.41 MB)	fire, propagation
08 Sep 2014	Record temperatures trail a blaze	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather
08 Sep 2014	Next generation models for predicting the behaviour of bushfires	Resource	save (1.12 MB)	fire, modelling
08 Sep 2014	The effects of fire plume dynamics on the lateral and longitudinal spread of long-range spotting	Resource	save (2.25 MB)	fire, fire impacts
08 Sep 2014	Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves	Resource	save (1.7 MB)	fire, flood, forecasting
08 Sep 2014	The effect of the degree of grass curing on the behaviour of grassland fires	Resource	save (17.65 MB)	fire
03 Sep 2014	WA warned of summer fire danger	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather
03 Sep 2014	Bushfire risk warning	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather
02 Sep 2014	Despite the August rain, another active fire season threatens	Press Clipping		environments, fire
02 Sep 2014	Australian bushfire outlook 2014 - 15	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather
02 Sep 2014	Bushfire outlook sends timely reminder to communities	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather
02 Sep 2014	Fire season threatens despite rain	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather
07 Aug 2014	Measuring the impacts of bushfires on human fatalities and building losses	Resource	save (3.25 MB)	engineering, fire
07 Aug 2014	Building at the interface	Resource	save (6.7 MB)	fire, fire impacts
07 Aug 2014	Community Members' Responses to Bushfire Threat	Resource	save (1.17 MB)	communities, decision making, fire
08 May 2014	Research to Drive Change	News		fire
21 Mar 2014	Fire management training for northern Australia	Resource	save (1.22 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, Northern Australia
21 Mar 2014	Fire spread prediction across fuel types	Resource	save (1.49 MB)	fire, modelling, prescribed burning
19 Mar 2014	Scientific diversity and uncertainty - bushfire and flood risk mitigation	Resource	save (241.15 KB)	fire, flood, risk management
11 Feb 2014	Summer fires 2013-14	News		fire
	Integrated urban planning for natural hazard mitigation	Biblio	save (2.41 MB)	fire, mitigation, risk analysis
	Long-range spotting by bushfire plumes: The effects of plume dynamics and turbulence on firebrand trajectory	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
	An evaluation of youth justice conferencing for youth misuse of fire	Biblio	save (3.77 MB)	fire
	Improvement of drag model for non-burning firebrand transport in Fire Dynamics Simulator	Biblio		fire, modelling
	Increasing the comprehensiveness of bushfire risk management in Victoria through the planning system	Biblio	save (791.82 KB)	fire, planning, risk management
	Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
	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
	How do residents in bushfire prone areas view the risk of their local area and homes?	Biblio	save (676.88 KB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
	Investigation of firebrand production during prescribed fires conducted in a pine forest	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
	Firebrand transport from a novel firebrand generator: numerical simulation of laboratory experiments	Biblio	save (10.05 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
	Impact of Australia's catastrophic 2019/20 bushfire season on communities and environment. Retrospective analysis and current trends	Biblio	save (1.34 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
	Fighting fires and fatigue	Project		fire
	Simulation of fuel bed ignition by wildland firebrands	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, modelling
	Sensing bushfire: Exploring shifting perspectives as hazard moves through the landscape	Biblio		communication, fire, resilience
	Parameterisation for a simplified short-range firebrand model from physics-based modelling	Project		fire, modelling