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
27 Aug 2019	QFES response to the 2018 fires	Resource	save (2.24 MB)	fire, fire impacts
08 Sep 2014	Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves	Resource	save (1.7 MB)	fire, flood, forecasting
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
08 May 2015	The Effect of Heat on Firefighters' Work Behaviour and Physiology Poster	Resource	save (9.71 MB)	fire, response
17 Apr 2019	Developing guidelines for increasing resilience of informal settlements exposed to wildfire risk	Resource	save (1.87 MB)	fire, framework
24 Oct 2016	Flammable grassy weeds	Resource	save (3.42 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, Northern Australia
07 Oct 2019	Inquiries housed in database	Resource		decision making, emergency management, fire
27 Oct 2014	The effect of the degree of grass curing on the behaviour of grassland fires	Resource		fire, propagation
31 Jul 2020	Bushfire lessons from cultural burns	Resource		fire, indigenous communities, land management
28 Jun 2019	National awards for our research	Resource		emergency management, fire, modelling
19 Sep 2018	The problem of context – understanding the estimation of fire background temperature in South-Eastern Australia	Resource	save (1.6 MB)	fire
03 Apr 2018	Australian Flammability Monitoring System: AFAC webinar	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire impacts
07 Sep 2017	A unified approach to fire spread modelling	Resource	save (4.06 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
29 Jun 2018	Review of seasonal bushfire outlook	Resource	save (1.1 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
29 Mar 2017	Can we predict bushfires from space?—Dr Marta Yebra	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
06 May 2020	Webinar 1 (6 May): Sarah Harris presentation	Resource	save (4.4 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
25 Nov 2020	Satellites to help show when the bush is ready to burn	Resource		fire, remote sensing, vulnerability
18 Aug 2015	Refinement and Validation of Firebrand Transport Sub Model for a Physics Based Bushfire Prediction Model: Design of a Firebrand Generator	Resource	save (188.99 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
09 Dec 2020	The Prescribed Burning Atlas: a new system to plan effective prescribed burns	Resource	save (872.25 KB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
31 Oct 2017	Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts: developing spatial information on fire hazard for planners, land managers and emergency services	Resource	save (1.32 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
12 Aug 2016	The Australian flammability monitoring system	Resource	save (362.43 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
27 Aug 2019	The Australian Fire Danger Rating System	Resource	save (1.28 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
23 Nov 2018	The savanna and rangelands monitoring and evaluation reporting framework	Resource	save (1.67 MB)	fire, fire weather, Northern Australia
21 Mar 2014	Fire spread prediction across fuel types	Resource	save (1.49 MB)	fire, modelling, prescribed burning
29 Jun 2017	The Australian Flammability Monitoring System	Resource	save (1.79 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
07 Aug 2014	Community Members' Responses to Bushfire Threat	Resource	save (1.17 MB)	communities, decision making, fire
08 May 2015	Fighting Fires while Fighting Fatigue Poster	Resource	save (210.36 KB)	fire, response
18 Sep 2018	Quantification of inter-regional differences in risk mitigation from prescribed burning across multiple management values	Resource	save (1.96 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
04 Dec 2014	Threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour	Resource	save (610.43 KB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
03 Jul 2015	Northern Satellite based Curing and Fuels	Resource	save (2.27 MB)	fire, fuel reduction
19 Sep 2018	Resilient or suicidal giants: what types of fires do the world’s tallest flowering forests support?	Resource	save (1.8 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, mitigation
07 Feb 2019	Black Saturday ten years on – what did we discover?	Resource	save (240.52 KB)	communities, fire, warnings
18 Aug 2015	Disaster Landscape Attribution: from the Ground to Space: Validation of TET-1 and HIMAWARI-8 for Active Fire Detection	Resource	save (488.84 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
03 Jul 2018	National intiatives - fire danger ratings, professionalisation	Resource	save (4.52 MB)	fire, fire impacts, savanna grasslands
13 May 2020	Webinar 2 (13 May): Neil Burrows presentation	Resource	save (4.9 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
24 Apr 2015	Bushfire risk perception: a study of the perceived vulnerability of domestic architecture in bushfire prone areas 2	Resource	save (412.98 KB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
29 Jun 2017	Incorporation of spotting and fire dynamics in a coupled atmosphere - fire modelling framework	Resource	save (1.76 MB)	fire, modelling
20 May 2020	Q&A with Dr Neil Burrows - National Fire Fuels Science webinar: the science of hazard reduction	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
31 Aug 2020	Fire Surveillance and hazard mapping	Resource	save (634.69 KB)	fire, multi-hazard