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
Investigating surface and near-surface bushfire fuel attributes: a comparison between visual assessments and image-based point clouds	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Leaf traits predict global patterns in the structure and flammability of forest litter beds	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, land management
“Should I Stay or Should I Go?” Defining the Preparatory Conditions in Support of Active Defence for Different Fire Danger Ratings	Biblio		communication, fire
Victorian bushfire case studies - Black Summer final report	Biblio	save (55.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
The role of extreme value analysis to enhance defendable space for construction practice and planning in bushfire prone environments - peer viewed	Biblio	save (703.25 KB)	fire, infrastructure, planning
Integrating wildfire risk management and spatial planning – A historical review of two Australian planning systems	Biblio	save (2.03 MB)	exposure, fire, infrastructure
Downscaling of soil dryness estimates: a short review	Biblio	save (1.56 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Community preparedness and responses to the 2017 NSW bushfires	Biblio	save (561.7 KB)	communities, fire, fire impacts
Dynamic modelling of fire coalescence	Biblio	save (4.5 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
A Temporal Framework of Large Wildfire Suppression in Practice, a Qualitative Descriptive Study	Biblio	save (7.69 MB)	fire, firefighter, response
Analysis of the physical processes associated with junction fires at laboratory and field scales	Biblio		emergency management, fire, planning
RUIM – A fire safety engineering model for rural urban interface firefighter taskforce deployment	Biblio		fire, firefighter, organisational
Physics-Based Simulation of Heat Load on Structures for Improving Construction Standards for Bushfire Prone Areas	Biblio	save (1.55 MB)	engineering, fire, physics
We have not lived long enough: sensemaking and learning from bushfires in Australia	Biblio	save (9.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts
Climate Change Significantly Alters Future Wildfire Mitigation Opportunities in Southeastern Australia	Biblio		climate change, fire, prescribed burning
Modelling the dynamic behaviour of junction fires with a coupled fire-atmosphere model	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Sleep restriction across a simulated firefighting deployment: The impact on acute stress responses	Biblio	save (24.15 MB)	fire, response
How do wet forests burn? : Fuels and fire danger in the world’s tallest flowering forest	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, land management
Modelling wind direction distributions using a diagnostic model in the context of probabilistic fire spread prediction	Biblio	save (9.25 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
Climate Change Increases the Potential for Extreme Wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling