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.

Item	Type		Key Topics
Terrestrial Laser Scanning: an operational tool for fuel hazard mapping?	Biblio		fire, prescribed burning, remote sensing
Australia's future national heatwave forecast and warning service: operational considerations.	Biblio	save (1.17 MB)	communities, fire, heat transfer
Smoke transportation and emissions modelling	Project		fire, modelling
Using environmental criminology theories to compare ‘youth misuse of fire’ across age groups in New South Wales	Biblio		communities, fire
What are the drivers of dangerous fires in Mediterranean France?	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Dynamic modelling of fire coalescence	Biblio	save (4.5 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Ardity index as a predictor of the hydrogeomorphic response of burnt landscapes	Project		fire, fuel reduction, land management
Developing and testing models of the drivers of anthropogenic and lightning-caused wildfire ignitions in south-eastern Australia	Biblio		fire, modelling, risk management
Household preparedness for bushfires: the role of residents' engagement with information sources	Biblio	save (1.61 MB)	communication, fire, preparedness
Kinetics of pyrolysis of litter materials from pine and eucalyptus forests	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, propagation
Understanding the variability of Australian fire weather between 1973 and 2017	Biblio		climate change, fire, fire weather
Fire spread across different fuel types: research and utilisation – final project report	Biblio	save (5.48 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Understanding spatial patterns of wildfire occurrence in south eastern Australia	Project		fire, fire impacts
Statistical models for the location of lightning caused wildfire ignitions	Biblio	save (5.69 MB)	fire, mitigation
Adaptive prescribed burning in Australia for the early 21st Century – context, status, challenges	Biblio	save (295.2 KB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
A model-data fusion framework for estimating fuel properties, vegetation growth, carbon storage and the water balance at hillslope scale	Biblio	save (2.69 MB)	fire, modelling
Exploring ISO31000 Risk Management during Dynamic Fire and Emergency Operations in Western Australia	Biblio	save (553.18 KB)	fire, firefighter, risk management
Established and emerging uses of predictive services in Victoria	Biblio	save (895.93 KB)	emergency management, fire, firefighter
Remote sensing applied to bushfire	Project		fire, remote sensing
Fire Spread Across Fuel Types Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (450.6 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts: annual project report 2017-18	Biblio	save (2.18 MB)	fire
Emerging technologies for estimating fuel hazard	Biblio	save (2.85 MB)	capability, fire, remote sensing
Understanding Post-Fire Fuel Dynamics using Burnt Permanent Forest Plots Report	Biblio	save (1.14 MB)	fire, fire impacts, land management
Effects of prenatal bushfire stress on life history traits in humans	Biblio	save (6.95 MB)	fire, fire impacts, risk management
Making Sense of Natural Disasters: The Learning Vacuum of Bushfire Public Inquiries	Biblio		fire, organisational, preparedness
The role of extreme value analysis to enhance defendable space for construction practice and planning in bushfire prone environments - peer viewed	Biblio	save (703.25 KB)	fire, infrastructure, planning
Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (1.52 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Advances in active fire detection using a multi-temporal method for next-generation geostationary satellite data	Biblio		fire, remote sensing, response
Persuasion without policies: The work of reviving Indigenous peoples’ fire management in southern Australia	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, land management
What are the safety implications of dynamic fire behaviours?	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Using videos in floods and bushfires to educate, signal risk, and promote protective action in the community	Biblio		communication, fire, flood
Evaluation and calibration of a land surface based soil moisture for fire danger ratings	Biblio	save (872.28 KB)	fire, soil moisture
An evaluation of Youth Justice Conferencing for youth misuse of fire	Project		child-centred, fire
Large-eddy simulation of neutral atmospheric surface layer flow over heterogeneous tree canopies	Biblio	save (1.28 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Demographic profiling: Victorian bushfires 2009 case study	Biblio	save (12.2 MB)	communities, fire, fire impacts
Identifying water sources using satellite imagery	Project		fire, fire weather, remote sensing
Predicting dead fine fuel moisture at regional scales using vapour pressure deficit from MODIS and gridded weather data	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, modelling
Physics-based simulation of firebrand and heat flux on structures in the context of AS3959	Biblio	save (1.68 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Psychophysiological relationships between a multi-component self-report measure of mood, stress and behavioural signs and symptoms, and physiological stress responses during a simulated firefighting deployment	Biblio		decision making, fire
Making the landscape “home”: Narratives of bushfire and place in Australia	Biblio		fire, risk management