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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Frequency of Dynamic Fire Behaviours in Australian Forest Environments	Biblio	save (985.4 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
A comparison between TLS and UAS LiDAR to represent eucalypt crown fuel characteristics	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves through the improvements of land dryness measures and forecasts - annual report 2018-2019	Biblio		emergency management, fire, land management
Intercomparison of Himawari-8 AHI-FSA with MODIS and VIIRS active fire products	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
A bushfire evacuation planning service utilising multiple simulation systems - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (292.86 KB)	fire, planning
Domestic architecture and the perception of risk in bushfire-prone areas	Biblio		fire, land management, risk management
Representing vapour and capillary rise from the soil improves a leaf litter moisture model	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, modelling
Sensitivity of the Empirical Mode Decomposition and its application to environmental data	Project		fire
Assessing Metrics for Estimating Fire Induced Change in the Forest Understorey Structure Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning	Biblio	save (9.28 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Remote sensing of fuel to improve fire behaviour predictions	Project		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Risks and opportunities for sustainable savanna fire management	Biblio	save (2.07 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
Improving decision support tools for conservation of fire-adapted ecosystems in southern Australia, through integrated simulation of reproductive ecology and landscape dynamics	Project		fire, modelling
A unified approach to fire spread modelling	Biblio	save (678.84 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
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
Using a worldview lens to examine complex policy issues: a historical review of bushfire management in the South West of Australia	Biblio		fire, governance, policy
Urban planning capabilities for bushfire: treatment categories and scenario testing	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, planning, scenario analysis
Direct Numerical Simulation of Confined Wall Plumes	Biblio		engineering, fire, modelling
Learning to learn from bushfire: Perspectives from Victorian emergency management practitioners	Biblio		emergency management, fire, organisational
Effect of relative humidity on grassfire propagation	Biblio	save (1.42 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Investigating bird responses to fire in the Heathy Dry Forests of Victoria, Australia	Biblio	save (8.52 MB)	animals, fire, fire impacts
Working outside ‘the rules’: Opportunities and challenges of community participation in risk reduction	Biblio		communities, fire, resilience
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Project		fire, fire severity, fire weather
Mapping Bushfire Hazard and Impacts Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (2.4 MB)	emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Numerical study on effect of relative humidity (and fuel moisture) on modes of grassfire propagation	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Large-eddy simulations of bushfire plumes in the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
Cardiovascular Risk Screening Volunteer Firefighters Report	Biblio	save (648.89 KB)	fire, response
Remote sensing of tree structure and biomass in north Australia mesic savanna	Biblio	save (4.38 MB)	fire, greenhouse gases, savanna grasslands
Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire	Project		fire, infrastructure, resilience
Mapping how outputs from various Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC projects could be combined to address the issue of how to best manage fuel to reduce bushfire risk into the future	Biblio	save (3.47 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, risk management
Savanna fire management and bushfire and natural hazard scenario planning for northern Australia: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.72 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
Validation of a novel attentional bias modification task: The future may be in the cards	Biblio		fire, response, risk management
A systematic exploration of the potential for bushfire risk mitigation with prescribed burning	Biblio	save (776.62 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
How do weather and terrain contribute to firefighter entrapments in Australia?	Biblio		fire, firefighter, modelling
Approaches for investigating fire impacts on catchment hydrology	Project		fire, hydrology
A report on WRF software development (preliminary)	Biblio	save (855.76 KB)	fire, land management, modelling
Simulated behaviour of wildland fire spreading through idealised heterogeneous fuels	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Surviving bushfire: the role of shelters and sheltering practices during the Black Saturday bushfires	Biblio		communities, decision making, fire
Shallow Fire Literacy Hinders Robust Fire Policy: Black Saturday and Prescribed Burning Debates	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, prescribed burning
Fire Spread Across Fuel Types Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (450.6 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Physics-based simulations of grassfire propagation on sloped terrain at field scale: motivations, model reliability, rate of spread and fire intensity	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics