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
Utilization of remote sensing techniques for the quantification of fire behavior in two pine stands	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Modelling of tree fires and fires transitioning from the forest floor to the canopy with a physics-based model	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Knowing wildfire risk: Scientific interactions with risk mitigation policy and practice in Victoria, Australia	Biblio		fire, modelling, policy
High-Resolution Estimates of Fire Severity - An Evaluation of UAS Image and LiDAR Mapping Approaches on a Sedgeland Forest Boundary in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, remote sensing
Refinement and validation of the pyrolysis and firebrand transport sub-models for a physics based bushfire prediction model	Project		fire, modelling
Biogeographical variation in the potential effectiveness of prescribed fire in south-eastern Australia	Biblio		fire, prescribed burning, risk management
Australian householders’ psychological preparedness for potential natural hazard threats: An exploration of contributing factors	Biblio		communities, emergency management, fire
Effect of weather forecast errors on fire growth model projections	Biblio		fire, fire severity, modelling
Large-eddy simulations of bushfire plumes in the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
Challenges for wildfire-prone urban-rural interfaces: The case of Melbourne	Biblio	save (460.84 KB)	fire, planning, risk management
Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour - annual report 2019-2020	Biblio	save (2.59 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Savanna fire management and bushfire and natural hazard scenario planning for northern Australia: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.72 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
Assessment and calibration of fuel moisture sensors	Project		fire, prescribed burning
Sampling and data analysis of field sites in NSW	Biblio	save (1.47 MB)	fire, fuel reduction
Coexisting with fire: Integrating resilient landscape design principles within broader urban place making policy for bushfire risk reduction in Australia	Project		fire, mitigation, policy
Surviving bushfire: the role of shelters and sheltering practices during the Black Saturday bushfires	Biblio		communities, decision making, fire
Active fire detection using the Himawari-8 satellite - final project report	Biblio	save (1.58 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
How does remotely sensed degree of curing and fuel load vary in grasslands and effect modelled fire spread?	Biblio	save (5.01 MB)	fire, remote sensing
Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (1.71 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Initiation of smouldering combustion in biomass	Biblio	save (14.67 MB)	fire, prescribed burning
A unified approach to fire spread modelling	Biblio	save (678.84 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Modelling the dynamic behaviour of junction fires with a coupled fire-atmosphere model	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Effects of prenatal bushfire stress on life history traits in humans	Project		fire
Community preparedness and responses to the 2017 NSW bushfires	Biblio	save (561.7 KB)	communities, fire, fire impacts
Sleep restriction across a simulated firefighting deployment: The impact on acute stress responses	Biblio	save (24.15 MB)	fire, response
A Temporal Framework of Large Wildfire Suppression in Practice, a Qualitative Descriptive Study	Biblio	save (7.69 MB)	fire, firefighter, response
Physical and fire behaviour characterisation of bushland fuels	Project		fire, modelling, propagation
Hazards, culture and indigenous communities: socio-institutional modules for utilisation	Biblio	save (1.22 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, modelling
Threshold Behaviour in Dynamic Fire Propagation Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (1.3 MB)	fire, propagation
A Broad-Area Method for the Diurnal Characterisation of Upwelling Medium Wave Infrared Radiation	Biblio	save (3.37 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Physics-Based Simulation of Heat Load on Structures for Improving Construction Standards for Bushfire Prone Areas	Biblio	save (1.55 MB)	engineering, fire, physics
Determining the minimum sampling frequency for ground measurements of burn severity	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
We have not lived long enough: sensemaking and learning from bushfires in Australia	Biblio	save (9.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts
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
Modelling wind direction distributions using a diagnostic model in the context of probabilistic fire spread prediction	Biblio	save (9.25 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
Simulations of radiation heat flux on a structure from a fire in an idealised shrubland	Biblio	save (1.14 MB)	engineering, fire, fire impacts
Simulated self-paced wildfire suppression work in different thermal conditions	Project		decision making, exposure, fire
Downscaling of soil dryness estimates: a short review	Biblio	save (1.56 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing