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	Shifts to the new abnormal: riding the waves of climate change	Resource	save (1.16 MB)	decision making, fire
07 Aug 2014	Measuring the impacts of bushfires on human fatalities and building losses	Resource	save (3.25 MB)	engineering, fire
18 Sep 2018	ACCESS-Fire to better understand risk	Resource	save (1.81 MB)	fire, modelling
14 Jul 2020	Prescribed Burning Atlas Launch 14 July 2020 - Hamish Clarke	Resource	save (2.49 MB)	fire, land management, prescribed burning
24 Oct 2016	Smouldering combustion in bushfires	Resource	save (317.63 KB)	fire, prescribed burning
17 Oct 2019	Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts	Resource	save (8.51 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
04 Dec 2014	Challenges in physics based bushfire modelling	Resource	save (885.16 KB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
01 Apr 2015	Fire Australia Autumn 2015	Resource	save (8.64 MB)	fire, modelling, severe weather
03 Jul 2015	Northern Queensland Fire Season Potential Outlook	Resource	save (3.65 MB)	fire, forecasting
19 Sep 2018	Investigating the effect of soil moisture, temperature and precipitation extremes on fires risk and intensity in Australia	Resource	save (1.16 MB)	fire
06 Feb 2017	Black Tuesday - 1967 Tasmania bushfires	Resource	save (0 bytes)	communities, fire, fire impacts
20 Mar 2020	Submission to South Australian Bushfire Inquiry	Resource	save (1.58 MB)	fire, fire severity
07 Sep 2017	Thermodynamics of pyrocumulus formation	Resource	save (2.79 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
18 Aug 2015	Towards Culturally Appropriate Fire Management in the Waanyi and Garawa Lands	Resource	save (147.24 KB)	fire, governance, indigenous communities
05 Nov 2018	PhD science on bushfire prediction modelling	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, modelling
29 Jun 2018	Savanna monitoring and reporting framework	Resource	save (1.84 MB)	fire, fire severity, Northern Australia
01 Dec 2020	PHOENIX RapidFire	Resource		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
03 Jul 2017	Bushfire - a statement on research priorities for natural hazards emergency management in Australia	Resource	save (653.5 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
12 Mar 2019	Fire Australia Issue One 2019	Resource	save (7.41 MB)	communication, emergency management, fire
06 May 2020	Questions and comments from the audience: 6 May 2020 - The thing about hazard reduction: why is it so difficult and divisive?	Resource	save (183.43 KB)	fire, fire weather, prescribed burning
31 Oct 2017	Mapping the fire landscape: active fire surveillance and fuel hazard assessments	Resource	save (869.85 KB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
27 Aug 2019	From hectares to tailor-made solutions for risk mitigation: An integrated prescribed burning research project	Resource	save (2.57 MB)	decision making, fire, prescribed burning
15 May 2019	Black Saturday bushfires: counting the cost	Resource		communities, economics, fire
08 Sep 2014	Next generation models for predicting the behaviour of bushfires	Resource	save (1.12 MB)	fire, modelling
11 Sep 2015	Linking local wildfire dynamics to PyroCB development	Resource	save (8.53 MB)	fire, modelling
30 Jun 2017	From hectares to tailor-made solutions for prescribed burning	Resource	save (1.72 MB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
08 May 2015	The Effect of Extreme Heat on the Performance of a Simulated Firefighter Task Poster	Resource	save (566.54 KB)	fire, response
27 Oct 2014	Next generation models for predicting the behaviour of bushfires	Resource		fire, modelling
19 Sep 2018	Ignitability of eucalyptus litters	Resource	save (980.44 KB)	fire, modelling
19 Apr 2018	Three Minute Thesis: Sprinkler systems to improve the bushfire resilience of buildings	Resource	save (791.13 KB)	fire, fire impacts
04 Apr 2016	Kate van Wezel - towards culturally appropriate fire management	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, indigenous communities, local knowledge
29 Jun 2018	Indigenous cultures in the north	Resource	save (954.79 KB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
05 Jul 2016	Queensland bushfire season 2015-16	Resource	save (602.05 KB)	fire, fuel reduction, Northern Australia
18 Aug 2015	Impact of Vegetation Regrowth on Wind Direction Over Complex Terrain	Resource	save (250.9 KB)	fire, severe weather
21 Aug 2019	Special address to honour public benefit research pioneer	Resource		decision making, emergency management, fire
24 Apr 2015	Bushfire risk perception: a study of the perceived vulnerability of domestic architecture in bushfire prone areas	Resource	save (1.09 MB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
31 Aug 2020	Physics-based simulation of firebrand and heat flux on structures in the context of AS3959	Resource	save (1.19 MB)	fire
19 Mar 2014	Scientific diversity and uncertainty - bushfire and flood risk mitigation	Resource	save (241.15 KB)	fire, flood, risk management
20 Mar 2019	Research and innovation leader appointed Chair	Resource		communication, fire, multi-hazard
18 Aug 2015	An Emprical Model for Assessing Daily Bushfire Community Smoke Exposure Over Large Geographic Areas	Resource	save (508.5 KB)	exposure, fire