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
Remote sensing of fuel to improve fire behaviour predictions	Project		fire, modelling, remote sensing
A review of firebrand studies on generation and transport	Biblio	save (7.65 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
An investigation of the dynamics of fire-fire interactions using a coupled fire-atmosphere model	Project		fire, modelling
Sleep restriction across a simulated firefighting deployment: the impact on acute stress responses	Project		decision making, fire
January 2020 NSW bushfires study	Biblio	save (579.61 KB)	fire, fire impacts, response
Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind speed profiles	Biblio	save (1.08 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Giving voice to our givers: A phenomenological study addressing the perceptions of Rural Fire Service volunteers in Queensland	Project		emergency management, fire, volunteering
The Australian Flammability Monitoring System	Biblio	save (805.45 KB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
Risk perception, preparedness and response of livestock producers to bushfires: a South Australian case study	Biblio	save (109.26 KB)	animals, fire, risk management
A fuel moisture content and flammability monitoring methodology for continental Australia based on optical remote sensing	Biblio		emergency management, fire, savanna grasslands
Calculation of critical water flow rates for wildfire suppression	Biblio	save (1.69 MB)	fire, firefighter, response
Approaches for investigating wildfire impacts on catchment hydrology	Biblio	save (2.91 MB)	environments, fire, fire impacts
Exponential random graph modelling of emergency collaboration network	Biblio		fire, response
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
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
Dynamics of litterfall and fine fuels after fire in sclerophyll forests and woodlands	Project		environments, fire, fire impacts
Fire-driven decline of endemic Allosyncarpia monsoon rainforests in Northern Australia	Biblio		environments, fire, land management
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
The Unquantified Risk of Post-Fire Metal Concentration in Soil: a Review	Biblio		environments, fire, soil moisture
Fuels3D - final project report	Biblio	save (2.21 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
The Theory/Practice of Disaster Justice: Learning from Indigenous Peoples’ Fire Management	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, resilience
Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves through the improvements of land dryness measures and forecasts: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.24 MB)	fire, flood, 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
Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts	Project		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Shallow Fire Literacy Hinders Robust Fire Policy: Black Saturday and Prescribed Burning Debates	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, prescribed burning
Utilization of remote sensing techniques for the quantification of fire behavior in two pine stands	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Analysis of RapidEye imagery to map fire severity and ground truthing	Project		fire, risk analysis
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
Valuing recovery through risk ownership	Biblio	save (893.83 KB)	fire, recovery, risk management
Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRF): utilities for WRF assessment and communication	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Tympanic Temperature to Predict Core Temperatures of Firefighters Report	Biblio	save (690.93 KB)	fire, response
Physics based simulations of grassfire propagation in patchy fuel beds and slopped terrain - a parametric study	Project		fire, fire impacts
Effect of relative humidity on grassfire propagation	Biblio	save (1.42 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
A strategic analysis of preventable residential fire fatalities	Project		fire, risk analysis, vulnerability
Investigating bird responses to fire in the Heathy Dry Forests of Victoria, Australia	Project		fire, fire impacts
Fighting fires and fatigue: sleep, physical activity, and physical task performance	Biblio	save (20.46 MB)	fire
Evolution of an extreme Pyrocumulonimbus-driven wildfire event in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio	save (844.71 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather