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
24 Apr 2015	Living with bushfires	Resource	save (498.75 KB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
19 Sep 2018	Extreme fire behaviours: Surveying fire management staff to determine behaviour frequencies and importance	Resource	save (686.42 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
29 Jun 2018	Twenty five years with the RFS in north Queensland	Resource	save (1.08 MB)	fire, fire severity
28 Apr 2020	Submission the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements	Resource	save (2.4 MB)	fire, fire severity
08 May 2015	Cardiovascular Risk Screening and Stratification of Victorian Volunteer Firefighters Presentation	Resource	save (946.08 KB)	fire, response
18 May 2017	Towards an improved land dryness estimate for fire prediction	Resource	save (5.71 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
03 Jul 2018	NAFM at 20 - research objectives	Resource	save (2.92 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, prescribed burning
14 May 2020	Webinar 2 (13 May): Mark Adams presentation	Resource	save (4.21 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
27 Aug 2019	Physics based simulations of grassfire propagation on up-sloped terrain – A parametric study	Resource	save (831.32 KB)	environments, fire, fire weather
31 Oct 2017	Fire spread across fuel types	Resource	save (1.1 MB)	fire, forecasting, modelling
20 May 2020	Questions and comments from the audience: 20 May 2020 - The practice of hazard reduction: what are the potentials and limitations?	Resource	save (175.44 KB)	fire, fire weather, prescribed burning
03 Jul 2015	Building Community Resilience in Northern Australia	Resource	save (2.2 MB)	communities, fire, resilience
29 Jun 2017	An evaluation of youth justice conferencing for youth misuse of fire	Resource	save (472.5 KB)	child-centred, fire
01 Sep 2016	You own the fuel, but who owns the fire? - Michael Eburn	Resource	save (328.64 KB)	fire, policy, risk management
24 May 2019	Public health and natural hazards: New policies and preparedness initiatives developed from an Australian bushfire case study	Resource	save (84.72 KB)	decision making, emergency management, fire
18 Aug 2015	Disaster Landscape Attribution: Low Cost 3D Monitoring of Fuel Hazard	Resource	save (190.78 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
17 Oct 2019	Fuels3D	Resource	save (5.15 MB)	fire, fire impacts
19 Sep 2018	Investigating the effect of soil moisture, temperature and precipitation extremes on fires risk and intensity in Australia	Resource	save (1.16 MB)	fire
06 Apr 2016	Sampson Flat community bushfire experiences	Resource	save (519.63 KB)	communities, fire, warnings
07 Sep 2017	A unified approach to fire spread modelling	Resource	save (4.06 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
08 Sep 2014	Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves	Resource	save (1.7 MB)	fire, flood, forecasting
29 Jun 2018	Review of seasonal bushfire outlook	Resource	save (1.1 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
06 May 2020	Webinar 1 (6 May): Sarah Harris presentation	Resource	save (4.4 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
08 May 2015	The Effect of Heat on Firefighters' Work Behaviour and Physiology Poster	Resource	save (9.71 MB)	fire, response
05 Nov 2018	PhD science on bushfire prediction modelling	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, modelling
05 Jul 2016	Developing people for the north	Resource	save (631.08 KB)	fire, indigenous communities, Northern Australia
25 Nov 2020	Satellites to help show when the bush is ready to burn	Resource		fire, remote sensing, vulnerability
29 Jun 2017	Air permeability of the litter layer in temperate forests of south-east Australia	Resource	save (1.18 MB)	fire, prescribed burning
27 Oct 2014	The effect of the degree of grass curing on the behaviour of grassland fires	Resource		fire, propagation
20 May 2020	Webinar 3 (20 May): Adam Leavesley presentation	Resource	save (4.22 MB)	fire, fire impacts, 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
16 Dec 2020	AFAC Webinar 'Where are we going with soil moisture' 2020	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, land management
11 Sep 2015	A bushfire evacuation planning service utilising multiple simulation systems	Resource	save (1.45 MB)	fire, planning, risk analysis
10 Apr 2019	AFAC national activities overview	Resource	save (5.85 MB)	fire, fire impacts
17 Jun 2020	Q&A with Dr Valerie Densmore - National Fire Fuels Science webinar: the practice of hazard reduction	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
07 Jul 2017	Three Minute Thesis: attribution of active fire using simulated fire landscapes	Resource	save (132.79 KB)	fire, modelling
24 Oct 2016	From hectares to tailor-made solutions for risk mitigation: systems to deliver effective prescribed burning across ecosystems	Resource	save (1.83 MB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
18 Sep 2018	ACCESS-Fire to better understand risk	Resource	save (1.81 MB)	fire, modelling
31 Jul 2020	Bushfire lessons from cultural burns	Resource		fire, indigenous communities, land management