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
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
05 Nov 2018	PhD science on bushfire prediction modelling	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, modelling
07 Aug 2014	Measuring the impacts of bushfires on human fatalities and building losses	Resource	save (3.25 MB)	engineering, fire
20 May 2020	National Fire Fuels Science webinar - The practice of hazard reduction (webinar 3 of 3)	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
23 Nov 2018	Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling	Resource	save (832.11 KB)	fire, modelling
27 Aug 2019	Detecting Active Fires using Himawari-8: a report from the NSW trial	Resource	save (2.9 MB)	fire, fire impacts
22 Jan 2021	The Australian Flammability Monitoring System: providing a clear picture of landscape dryness	Resource	save (768.18 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
04 Dec 2014	Challenges in physics based bushfire modelling	Resource	save (885.16 KB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
30 Jun 2017	The effect of wildfire on forested catchment water quality: empirical versus mechanistic models	Resource	save (928.65 KB)	fire, fire impacts, hydrology
03 Jul 2015	Northern Queensland Fire Season Potential Outlook	Resource	save (3.65 MB)	fire, forecasting
10 Apr 2019	AFAC national activities overview	Resource	save (5.85 MB)	fire, fire impacts
22 Mar 2016	Severe and High Impact Weather - cluster overview	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, modelling, scenario analysis
19 Sep 2018	Ignitability of eucalyptus litters	Resource	save (980.44 KB)	fire, modelling
18 Aug 2015	Impact of Vegetation Regrowth on Wind Direction Over Complex Terrain	Resource	save (250.9 KB)	fire, severe weather
07 Jul 2016	Kimberley grasslands curing	Resource	save (1.66 MB)	fire, land management, Northern Australia
29 Jun 2017	Simulated rate-of-spread of a grassfire propagating under a tree canopy	Resource	save (1.33 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
28 Apr 2020	Victoria IGEM Bushfire Inquiry	Resource	save (1.59 MB)	fire, fire severity
07 Sep 2017	The Australian Flammability Monitoring System	Resource	save (1.49 MB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
30 Aug 2016	"I’m going to be frightened out of my wits": Insights on psychological preparedness from the Sampson Flat fire - Danielle Every	Resource	save (970.63 KB)	communication, communities, fire
29 Jun 2018	Queensland bushfire mitigation and overview 2017-18	Resource	save (1.9 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
08 Sep 2014	Next generation models for predicting the behaviour of bushfires	Resource	save (1.12 MB)	fire, modelling
08 May 2015	The Effect of Extreme Heat on the Performance of a Simulated Firefighter Task Poster	Resource	save (566.54 KB)	fire, response
31 Oct 2017	Three Minute Thesis: rethinking fuel accumulation curves	Resource	save (288.24 KB)	environments, fire, risk management
27 Aug 2019	Disaster and economic resilience in small regional communities: the case of Toodyay	Resource	save (433.35 KB)	fire, optimisation
24 Oct 2016	Disaster landscape attribution, active fire detection and hazard mapping	Resource	save (1.9 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
16 Dec 2020	Recovery strategies of Eucalyptus delegatensis subsp. tasmaniensisafter the 2016 fires in Central Tasmania	Resource	save (1.1 MB)	fire
12 Mar 2019	Fire Australia Issue One 2019	Resource	save (7.41 MB)	communication, emergency management, fire
27 Oct 2014	Next generation models for predicting the behaviour of bushfires	Resource		fire, modelling
01 Jun 2020	Q&A with A/Prof Tina Bell - National Fire Fuels Science webinar: the science of hazard reduction	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
27 Aug 2019	ACCESS-Fire	Resource	save (11.32 MB)	fire, modelling
30 Nov 2016	Southern Australia Seasonal Bushfire Outlook 2016-17: November update	Resource	save (951.14 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
02 Aug 2017	Three Minute Thesis: Kamarah Pooley - Showcase 2017	Resource		child-centred, education, fire
17 Oct 2019	The Savanna and Rangelands Monitoring and Evaluation Reporting Framework (SMERF)	Resource	save (8.51 MB)	fire, Northern Australia
18 Aug 2015	Rainforests on Fire: Assessing Bushfire Risk in Tasmania's Wet Forest Types	Resource	save (156.59 KB)	fire, modelling, risk analysis
13 Aug 2020	Q&A with Dr Hamish Clarke - Prescribed Burning Atlas launch webinar	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, land management, prescribed burning
24 Apr 2015	Bushfire risk perception: a study of the perceived vulnerability of domestic architecture in bushfire prone areas	Resource	save (1.09 MB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
19 Sep 2018	Fuels3D	Resource	save (3.62 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
25 Jul 2019	Science central to bushfire review	Resource		child-centred, fire, governance
29 Jun 2018	An overview of national fire research	Resource	save (3.25 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
13 Dec 2018	The development of a pyrocumulonimbus prediction tool: AFAC webinar	Resource	save (0 bytes)	communities, fire, fire impacts