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
Incorporating firebrands and spot fires into vorticity-driven wildfire behaviour models	Biblio	save (3.04 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Victorian bushfire case studies - Black Summer final report	Biblio	save (55.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Improvements to wind field generation in physics-based models to reduce spin-up time and to account for terrain, heated earth surface	Biblio	save (1.21 MB)	fire, fire weather
Remote sensing applied to bushfire	Project		fire, remote sensing
A Live Fuel Moisture Content Product from Landsat TM Satellite Time Series for Implementation in Fire Behavior Models	Biblio	save (4.32 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, remote sensing
The Vegetation Structure Perpendicular Index (VSPI): A forest condition index for wildlife predictions	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Firefighter involvement in Youth Justice Conferencing: Implications for fire prevention	Biblio		communities, education, fire
Determining Threshold Conditions for Extreme Fire Behaviour Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (833.68 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Preventable residential fire fatalities in Australia July 2003 to June 2017	Biblio	save (1.62 MB)	fire, risk analysis, vulnerability
Parenting after Black Saturday: lived experiences since the 2009 Victorian bushfires	Biblio		child-centred, fire, recovery
Think long term: the costs and benefits of prescribed burning in the south west of Western Australia	Biblio	save (207.03 KB)	economics, fire, prescribed burning
Extreme fire behaviours: Surveying fire management staff to determine behaviour frequencies and importance	Biblio	save (414.7 KB)	emergency management, fire, fire severity
The effect of ignition protocol on grassfire development	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Fire in the south: a cross-continental exchange	Biblio	save (6.19 MB)	fire, indigenous communities
How do residents in bushfire prone areas view the risk of their local area and homes?	Biblio	save (676.88 KB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
Black Summer - how the NSW community responded to the 2019-20 bushfire season	Biblio	save (2.89 MB)	communication, communities, fire
Simulations of the waroona fire with the access-fire coupled fire atmosphere model	Biblio	save (914.91 KB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
Spatially forecasting coupled litter and root moisture dynamics for bushfire management	Project		fire, fire impacts, modelling
Feeling the heat: International perspectives on the prevention of wildfire ignition	Biblio		fire, planning, preparedness
Incorporating convective feedback in wildfire simulations using pyrogenic potential	Biblio		fire, modelling, optimisation
Fighting fires and fatigue	Project		fire
Quantifying fuel hazard assessments - Fuels3D annual report 2019-2020	Biblio	save (663.64 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Reducing the risk of house loss due to wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, risk management
Predicting dead fine fuel moisture at regional scales using vapour pressure deficit from MODIS and gridded weather data	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, modelling
Statistical Characterisation Of Wind Fields Over Complex Terrain With Applications In Bushfire Modelling	Biblio	save (30.13 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Models of buoyant plume rise	Biblio	save (1.3 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Psychophysiological relationships between a multi-component self-report measure of mood, stress and behavioural signs and symptoms, and physiological stress responses during a simulated firefighting deployment	Biblio		decision making, fire
The contribution of turbulent plume dynamics to long-range spotting	Biblio		fire, fire weather, propagation
A theoretical framework for negotiating the path of emergency management multi-agency coordination	Biblio		emergency management, fire
Simulated Self-Paced Wildfire Suppression Work in Different Thermal Conditions	Biblio	save (13.55 MB)	decision making, exposure, fire
The impacts of catastrophic wildfire on ecological interactions among regenerated vegetation, fungi and small foraging marsupials	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Towards comprehensive characterisation of flammability and fire danger	Biblio	save (1.57 MB)	fire, remote sensing, risk analysis
Next generation Fuels 3D remote sensing	Project		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
A response to comments of Cruz et al. on: ‘Simulation study of grass fire using a physics-based model: striving towards numerical rigour and the effect of grass height on the rate of spread’	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Large-eddy simulations of pyro-convection and its sensitivity to mositure	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
Implementation of spatially-varying wind adjustment factor for wildfire simulations	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Fire-driven decline of endemic Allosyncarpia monsoon rainforests in Northern Australia	Biblio		environments, fire, land management
Changing Fire Regimes in Tropical and Subtropical Australia	Biblio	save (7.08 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: considerations in content, representation and design	Project		communication, communities, fire
Using earth observation to better understand the effects of aerial firefighting	Project		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing