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
	Approaches for investigating fire impacts on catchment hydrology	Project		fire, hydrology
	Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Project		fire, fire severity, fire weather
	Improving decision support tools for conservation of fire-adapted ecosystems in southern Australia, through integrated simulation of reproductive ecology and landscape dynamics	Project		fire, modelling
	Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire	Project		fire, infrastructure, resilience
	Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRF): utilities for WRF assessment and communication	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
	Improving land dryness measures and forecasts	Project		fire, flood, remote sensing
	Smoke transportation and emissions modelling	Project		fire, modelling
	Ardity index as a predictor of the hydrogeomorphic response of burnt landscapes	Project		fire, fuel reduction, land management
	Understanding spatial patterns of wildfire occurrence in south eastern Australia	Project		fire, fire impacts
	Remote sensing applied to bushfire	Project		fire, remote sensing
	An evaluation of Youth Justice Conferencing for youth misuse of fire	Project		child-centred, fire
	Identifying water sources using satellite imagery	Project		fire, fire weather, remote sensing
	Development of seasonal fire prediction tools	Project		fire, fire severity, fire weather
	Fire transitions across urban boundaries	Project		fire
	Agency experts supporting bushfire disaster resilience education for primary school students: a case study in NSW	Project		child-centred, education, fire
	Investigating the effect of soil moisture, temperature and precipitation extremes on fire risk and intensity in Australia	Project		fire
	Development of an integrated method to predict bushfire hazard	Project		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
	Plume and air quality modelling	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire weather
	Assessment and calibration of fuel moisture sensors	Project		fire, prescribed burning
	Coexisting with fire: Integrating resilient landscape design principles within broader urban place making policy for bushfire risk reduction in Australia	Project		fire, mitigation, policy
	Refinement and validation of the pyrolysis and firebrand transport sub-models for a physics based bushfire prediction model	Project		fire, modelling
	Development of an interface using penalisation method for improving computational performance of bushfire simulation tools	Project		fire, modelling, physics
	Bushfire climatology in Victoria	Project		fire, fire weather
	The viability of shared responsibility in relation to wildﬁre prevention in Victoria and California	Project		fire, fire impacts, planning
	Models for lightning-caused wildfire ignition	Project		fire, modelling
	Simulated self-paced wildfire suppression work in different thermal conditions	Project		decision making, exposure, fire
	Effects of prenatal bushfire stress on life history traits in humans	Project		fire
	Physical and fire behaviour characterisation of bushland fuels	Project		fire, modelling, propagation
15 Sep 2020	France-Australia Workshop: Day 1/Panel 1 Alen Slijepcevic	Resource	save (2.56 MB)	decision making, fire, multi-hazard
29 Jun 2017	Improved measures and forecasts of soil dryness	Resource	save (1.17 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
16 Aug 2019	The Australian Flammability Monitoring System	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
15 Feb 2018	Research gives insights into community fire response	Resource	save (2.46 MB)	communities, emergency management, fire
24 Jan 2020	More of the same is not the answer	Resource		communication, fire, mitigation
13 May 2020	Webinar 2 (13 May): Tina Bell presentation	Resource	save (8.48 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
08 May 2015	Effective Communication of Household Bushfire Risk Poster	Resource	save (821.14 KB)	communication, fire
31 Aug 2020	Flammability of live plants, do we need a new testing approach?	Resource	save (394.59 KB)	fire, fire weather
27 Aug 2019	Australian Flammability Monitoring System Website	Resource	save (1.31 MB)	fire, remote sensing
22 Mar 2016	Severe and High Impact Weather - cluster overview	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, modelling, scenario analysis
29 Jun 2018	NAFM at 20 - challenges of fire management at QFES	Resource	save (525.46 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
04 Dec 2014	Mitigating the effects of severe hazards	Resource	save (1.62 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing