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
Simulation of fuel bed ignition by wildland firebrands	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, modelling
An organisational response to Stage 3 Geography and the study of a contemporary bushfire event	Biblio	save (533.99 KB)	child-centred, education, fire
Scientific advice for the development of a suppression effectiveness model to support strategic bushfire risk planning	Project		decision making, fire, governance
Domestic architecture and the perception of risk in bushfire-prone areas	Project		communities, fire, risk analysis
Think long term: the costs and benefits of prescribed burning in the south west of Western Australia	Biblio	save (207.03 KB)	economics, fire, prescribed burning
Physics-based simulation of firebrand and heat flux on structures in the context of AS3959	Biblio	save (1.68 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Physics-Based Simulations of Flow and Fire Development Downstream of a Canopy	Biblio	save (9.63 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Established and emerging uses of predictive services	Project		emergency management, fire, firefighter
The impacts of catastrophic wildfire on ecological interactions among regenerated vegetation, fungi and small foraging marsupials	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Social values in bushfire management decision making	Project		decision making, economics, fire
Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour	Biblio	save (672.85 KB)	fire, fire severity
Towards comprehensive characterisation of flammability and fire danger	Biblio	save (1.57 MB)	fire, remote sensing, risk analysis
Active fire detection using the Himawari-8 satellite - annual report 2019-2020	Biblio	save (859.87 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Satellite Remote Sensing Contributions to Wildland Fire Science and Management	Biblio		fire, remote sensing, risk management
Should we leave now? Behavioral factors in evacuation under wildfire threat	Biblio		fire, modelling
Historical background and current developments for mapping burned area from satellite Earth observation	Biblio	save (1.35 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Bushfire survival preparations by householders in at-risk areas of south-eastern Australia	Biblio		communities, fire, planning
Southeast Australia Aboriginal fire forum	Biblio	save (2.31 MB)	fire, fire impacts, Northern Australia
Fuels3D - final project report	Biblio	save (2.21 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Exponential random graph modelling of emergency collaboration network	Biblio		fire, response
The Theory/Practice of Disaster Justice: Learning from Indigenous Peoples’ Fire Management	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, resilience
Numerical modelling of fires on forest floor and canopy fires	Biblio	save (1.64 MB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
Performance of fire detection algorithms using himawari-8	Biblio	save (1.27 MB)	emergency management, fire, fire weather
A review of firebrand studies on generation and transport	Biblio	save (7.65 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
The effect of firefighter-delivered fire safety education on young people who misuse fire	Biblio		communities, education, fire
Literature review: modelling and simulation of flow over tree canopies	Biblio	save (943.19 KB)	environments, fire, fire weather
Agency experts supporting bushfire disaster resilience education for primary school students: a case study in NSW	Project		child-centred, education, fire
The Effect of Hazard Reduction Burning on the Fuel Array in Nature Reserves and Urban Parks in the Australian Capital Territory Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (1.89 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Giving voice to our givers: A phenomenological study addressing the perceptions of Rural Fire Service volunteers in Queensland	Project		emergency management, fire, volunteering
Using alternative soil moisture estimates in the McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, modelling
Approaches for investigating wildfire impacts on catchment hydrology	Biblio	save (2.91 MB)	environments, fire, fire impacts
Simulation of flows through canopies with varying atmospheric stability	Biblio	save (739.35 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Sleep restriction across a simulated firefighting deployment: the impact on acute stress responses	Project		decision making, fire
Gendered responses to the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires in Victoria, Australia	Biblio		communities, fire, response
Effects of Sydney coastal dry sclerophyll forest litter on fuels and fire behaviour in Hornsby shire	Biblio	save (2.29 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fuel reduction
Studying leaf area density based wind adjustment factor in Spark	Biblio	save (3.49 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Tympanic Temperature to Predict Core Temperatures of Firefighters Report	Biblio	save (690.93 KB)	fire, response
Comparison of remotely sensed and modelled soil moisture data sets across Australia	Biblio		fire, flood, remote sensing
Estimating fire severity and carbon emissions over Australian tropical savannahs based on passive microwave satellite observations	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: considerations in content, representation and design	Biblio	save (3.91 MB)	communication, fire, modelling