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
Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves through the improvements of land dryness measures and forecasts: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.24 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
A response to comments of Cruz et al. on: ‘Simulation study of grass fire using a physics-based model: striving towards numerical rigour and the effect of grass height on the rate of spread’	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Case study: use of remote sensing data to derive spatial and temporal explicit fuel accumulation curves across defence lands	Biblio	save (2.79 MB)	fire, land management, remote sensing
Reducing bushfire risk to vulnerable community members through health and community services agencies – business continuity approach	Biblio	save (687.64 KB)	communities, emergency management, fire
Analysis of RapidEye imagery to map fire severity and ground truthing	Project		fire, risk analysis
Mapping and understanding bushfire and natural hazard vulnerability and risks at the institutional scale: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (2.01 MB)	fire, risk analysis, vulnerability
Modelling of tree fires and fires transitioning from the forest floor to the canopy with a physics-based model	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Drivers of long-distance spotting during wildfires in south-eastern Australia	Biblio	save (3.97 MB)	fire, mitigation, prescribed burning
Valuing recovery through risk ownership	Biblio	save (893.83 KB)	fire, recovery, risk management
Australian householders’ psychological preparedness for potential natural hazard threats: An exploration of contributing factors	Biblio		communities, emergency management, fire
Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRF): utilities for WRF assessment and communication	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Tympanic Temperature to Predict Core Temperatures of Firefighters Report	Biblio	save (690.93 KB)	fire, response
How chief officers view success in fire policy and management	Biblio		fire, governance, policy
The role of urban planning in urban fire mitigation	Project		fire, mitigation, planning
A strategic analysis of preventable residential fire fatalities	Project		fire, risk analysis, vulnerability
Children, bushfire and climate change	Biblio		child-centred, fire, resilience
Turbulent flow over transitionally rough surfaces with varying roughness densities	Biblio	save (527.34 KB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
Fighting fires and fatigue: sleep, physical activity, and physical task performance	Biblio	save (20.46 MB)	fire
Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts – final project report	Biblio	save (1.94 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Mapping the area of Tathra to study, if Mechanical Fuel Load Reduction (MFLR) along with prescribed burning can save houses (in future) at Tathra NSW	Project		fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
Challenges for wildfire-prone urban-rural interfaces: The case of Melbourne	Biblio	save (460.84 KB)	fire, planning, risk management
Planning for Bushfires on the Rural-Urban Interface: An analysis of the correlations between house setbacks and house loss as evidence of house-to-house fire spread in the 2009 Victorian Bushfires	Project		engineering, fire, planning
Mapping Bushfire Hazard and Impacts Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (1.82 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Through the flames - quantitative analysis of strategic and tactical wildfire suppression	Project		fire, fire impacts, response
A moveable beast: subjective influence of human-animal relationships on risk perception and risk behaviour during bushfire threat	Biblio		animals, decision making, fire
Studying leaf area density based wind adjustment factor in Spark	Biblio	save (3.49 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Coexisting with fire: Integrating resilient landscape design principles within broader urban place making policy for bushfire risk reduction in Australia	Project		fire, mitigation, policy
Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (1.71 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Meteorological drivers of the eastern Victorian Black Summer (2019–2020) fires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, scenario analysis
Initiation of smouldering combustion in biomass	Biblio	save (14.67 MB)	fire, prescribed burning
Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts	Project		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
A comparison and validation of satellite-derived fire severity mapping techniques in fire prone north Australian savannas: Extreme fires and tree stem mortality	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
A Temporal Framework of Large Wildfire Suppression in Practice, a Qualitative Descriptive Study	Biblio	save (7.69 MB)	fire, firefighter, response
Lessons learned from a multidisciplinary investigation into the Waroona fire	Biblio	save (892.05 KB)	fire, fire impacts, scenario analysis
RUIM – A fire safety engineering model for rural urban interface firefighter taskforce deployment	Biblio		fire, firefighter, organisational
Investigating the activation of community fire units in the Blue Mountains during the October 2013 bushfires	Biblio	save (5.29 MB)	fire, local knowledge, volunteering
Climate Change Significantly Alters Future Wildfire Mitigation Opportunities in Southeastern Australia	Biblio		climate change, fire, prescribed burning
Physics-Based Simulation of Heat Load on Structures for Improving Construction Standards for Bushfire Prone Areas	Biblio	save (1.55 MB)	engineering, fire, physics
Fire spread across different fuel types: research and utilisation – final project report	Biblio	save (5.48 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Sleeping at work: not all about location, location, location	Biblio		fire