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
January 2020 NSW bushfires study	Biblio	save (579.61 KB)	fire, fire impacts, response
A review of firebrand studies on generation and transport	Biblio	save (7.65 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Enhanced estimation of background temperature for fire detection using new geostationary sensors	Biblio	save (538.96 KB)	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
Risk perception, preparedness and response of livestock producers to bushfires: a South Australian case study	Biblio	save (109.26 KB)	animals, fire, risk management
User interface platform for the Victorian historical fire weather gridded dataset	Project		fire, fire impacts
Approaches for investigating wildfire impacts on catchment hydrology	Biblio	save (2.91 MB)	environments, fire, fire impacts
Identification and quantitative analysis of smoldering and flaming combustion of Radiata Pine	Biblio		fire, modelling, propagation
Cost effectiveness of fire management strategies in southern Australia	Biblio		fire, modelling, organisational
Taking fire: the historical and contemporary politics of Indigenous burning in Australia and the western United States	Project		fire, indigenous communities
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
Estimating grassland curing with remotely sensed data	Biblio		fire, fire severity, modelling
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
Large-eddy simulations of pyro-convection and its sensitivity to mositure	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
Changing Fire Regimes in Tropical and Subtropical Australia	Biblio	save (7.08 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
Can air quality management drive sustainable fuels management at the temperate wildland–urban interface?	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction
Studying leaf area density based wind adjustment factor in Spark	Biblio	save (3.49 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Evaluation of daily soil moisture deficit used in Australian forest fire danger rating system	Biblio	save (2.64 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Culturally appropriate mapping tools for informing two-way fire management planning in remote indigenous north Australian communities - peer viewed	Biblio	save (531.79 KB)	fire, Northern Australia, planning
Shallow Fire Literacy Hinders Robust Fire Policy: Black Saturday and Prescribed Burning Debates	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, prescribed burning
A systematic exploration of the potential for bushfire risk mitigation with prescribed burning	Biblio	save (776.62 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
The Stress of Firefighting Report	Biblio	save (620.18 KB)	fire, response
How do weather and terrain contribute to firefighter entrapments in Australia?	Biblio		fire, firefighter, modelling
Meteorological drivers of the eastern Victorian Black Summer (2019–2020) fires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, scenario analysis
Effects of Oxygen Concentration on Radiation-Aided and Self-sustained Smoldering Combustion of Radiata Pine	Biblio		fire, fire weather, fuel reduction
Efficiency of Individual Tree Detection Approaches Based on Light-Weight and Low-Cost UAS Imagery in Australian Savannas	Biblio		fire, Northern Australia, remote sensing
Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Modelling	Biblio	save (563.46 KB)	fire, forecasting, modelling
Urban planning capabilities for bushfire: treatment categories and scenario testing	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, planning, scenario analysis
Global vegetation gross primary production estimation using satellite-derived light-use efficiency and canopy conductance	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Development of a predictive model for estimating forest surface fuel load in Australian eucalypt forests with LiDAR data	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Effect of relative humidity on grassfire propagation	Biblio	save (1.42 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Physics based simulations of grassfire propagation in patchy fuel beds and slopped terrain - a parametric study	Project		fire, fire impacts
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Biblio		emergency management, fire, physics
Investigating bird responses to fire in the Heathy Dry Forests of Victoria, Australia	Project		fire, fire impacts
Initiation of biomass smouldering combustion in bushfires	Project		fire, prescribed burning
Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRF): utilities for WRF assessment and communication	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Navigating scientific uncertainty in wildfire and flood risk mitigation: A qualitative review	Biblio	save (435.47 KB)	fire, flood, mitigation
Evolution of an extreme Pyrocumulonimbus-driven wildfire event in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio	save (844.71 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Exploring 167 years of vulnerability: An examination of extreme heat events in Australia 1844–2010	Biblio		fire, vulnerability
Mapping Bushfire Hazard and Impacts Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (2.4 MB)	emergency management, fire, fire impacts