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.

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Mitigating the Effects of Severe Fires, Floods and Heatwaves Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (641.54 KB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
Causes and consequences of Eastern Australia’s 2019–20 season of mega‐fires: A broader perspective	Biblio	save (623.99 KB)	climate change, fire, fire severity
Geographic Patterns of Fire Severity Following an Extreme Eucalyptus Forest Fire in Southern Australia: 2013 Forcett-Dunalley Fire	Biblio	save (8 MB)	fire, fire weather, remote sensing
The Effects of Fire-Plume Dynamics on the Lateral and Longitudinal Spread of Long-Range Spotting Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (1.21 MB)	fire, modelling
Navigating Uncertainty: a qualitative study of resident involvement in the 2013 Forcett Tasmania bushfire disaster	Biblio	save (3.49 MB)	fire, fire impacts, recovery
Experiences with the global impacts of climate change	Biblio	save (1.26 MB)	climate change, fire, fire impacts
Estimating fire severity and carbon emissions over Australian tropical savannahs based on passive microwave satellite observations	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Using Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies to support aerial firefighting	Biblio	save (2.69 MB)	fire, fire weather, remote sensing
Determining threshold conditions for extreme bushfire behaviour annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (2.29 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Factors influencing householder self-evacuation in two Australian bushfires	Biblio	save (4.68 MB)	communication, fire, warnings
Physics-based simulation of short-range spotting in wildfires	Biblio	save (21 MB)	fire, mitigation, modelling
Implementation of a new algorithm resulting in improvements in accuracy and resolution of SEVIRI hotspot products	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Physics-based simulations of grassfire propagation on sloped terrain at field scale: flame dynamics, mode of fire propagation and heat fluxes	Biblio	save (11.45 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Shallow Fire Literacy Hinders Robust Fire Policy: Black Saturday and Prescribed Burning Debates	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, prescribed burning
Cardiovascular Risk Screening Volunteer Firefighters Report	Biblio	save (648.89 KB)	fire, response
Urban planning capabilities for bushfire: treatment categories and scenario testing	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, planning, scenario analysis
Validation of a novel attentional bias modification task: The future may be in the cards	Biblio		fire, response, risk management
Valuing recovery through risk ownership	Biblio	save (893.83 KB)	fire, recovery, risk management
Cultural burning and public sector practice in the Australian Capital Territory	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, land management
Effect of relative humidity on grassfire propagation	Biblio	save (1.42 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Urban planning: historical changes integrating bushfire risk management in Victoria	Biblio		fire, planning, risk management
Fighting fires and fatigue: sleep, physical activity, and physical task performance	Biblio	save (20.46 MB)	fire
Effects of prescribed fire and post-fire rainfall on mercury mobilization and subsequent contamination assessment in a legacy mine site in Victoria, Australia	Biblio		fire, prescribed burning
Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRFs): utilities for WRF assessment and communication - Black Summer final report	Biblio	save (2.01 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts: annual project report 2017-18	Biblio	save (2.18 MB)	fire
Encouraging evacuation: the role of behavioural message inputs in bushfire warnings	Biblio		communication, fire, warnings
Mesoscale features related to the Blue Mountains fires of 17 October 2013 revealed by high resolution Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) modelling	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
Understanding Post-Fire Fuel Dynamics using Burnt Permanent Forest Plots Report	Biblio	save (1.14 MB)	fire, fire impacts, land management
Post-inquiry sensemaking: the case of the ‘Black Saturday’ bushfires	Biblio		fire, organisational, preparedness
Victorian bushfire case studies - Black Summer final report	Biblio	save (55.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Disaster landscape attribution: annual report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.22 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
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
Australia's future national heatwave forecast and warning service: operational considerations.	Biblio	save (1.17 MB)	communities, fire, heat transfer
What are the drivers of dangerous fires in Mediterranean France?	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Using environmental criminology theories to compare ‘youth misuse of fire’ across age groups in New South Wales	Biblio		communities, fire
Near real-time extracting wildfire spread rate from Himawari-8 satellite data	Biblio	save (3.36 MB)	fire, modelling, 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
Dynamic modelling of fire coalescence	Biblio	save (4.5 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Lessons learned from a multidisciplinary investigation into the Waroona fire	Biblio	save (892.05 KB)	fire, fire impacts, scenario analysis
Household preparedness for bushfires: the role of residents' engagement with information sources	Biblio	save (1.61 MB)	communication, fire, preparedness