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
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
27 Aug 2019	Probability and consequence of water contamination from post-fire debris flow	Resource	save (6.57 MB)	fire
31 Aug 2016	Southern Australia Seasonal Bushfire Outlook 2016	Resource	save (1.03 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
09 Apr 2019	Coexisting with combustion: the future of bushfire management	Resource	save (0 bytes)	communities, fire, fire impacts
07 Aug 2014	Building at the interface	Resource	save (6.7 MB)	fire, fire impacts
08 May 2015	Extended Wakefulness and Work Physiology of Wildland Firefighters Poster	Resource	save (303.71 KB)	fire, response
24 Oct 2016	Mitigating the effects of sever fires, floods and heatwaves through improvement to land dryness measures and forecasts	Resource	save (3.12 MB)	fire, flood, forecasting
18 Sep 2018	Pyroconvective interactions and dynamic fire propagation	Resource	save (2.21 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
04 Dec 2014	Fire coalescence and mass spotfire dynamics	Resource	save (704.99 KB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
03 Jul 2015	Northern Seasonal Fire Outlook	Resource	save (5.92 MB)	fire, forecasting
19 Sep 2018	Fuels3D	Resource	save (3.62 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
13 Dec 2018	The development of a pyrocumulonimbus prediction tool: AFAC webinar	Resource	save (0 bytes)	communities, fire, fire impacts
07 Sep 2017	A new quantitative smoke forecasting system for Victoria	Resource	save (1.36 MB)	fire, fire weather, forecasting
18 Aug 2015	Delivering Effective Prescribed Burning Across Southern Australia	Resource	save (355.69 KB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
03 Jul 2018	NAFM at 20 - research objectives	Resource	save (2.92 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, prescribed burning
18 May 2017	Towards an improved land dryness estimate for fire prediction	Resource	save (5.71 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
19 May 2020	Q&A with ABC's Sascha Rundle - National Fire Fuels Science webinar: the thing about hazard reduction	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
08 Mar 2019	Sesa Singha Roy - early career researcher entry 2019	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, modelling
27 Aug 2019	Physics based simulations of grassfire propagation on up-sloped terrain – A parametric study	Resource	save (831.32 KB)	environments, fire, fire weather
31 Oct 2017	Fire spread across fuel types	Resource	save (1.1 MB)	fire, forecasting, modelling
31 Aug 2020	Scenario Planning for Remote Community Risk Management in northern Australia	Resource	save (1.52 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, resilience
23 Nov 2018	The prescribed fire atlas	Resource	save (960.9 KB)	fire, prescribed burning
29 Jun 2017	An evaluation of youth justice conferencing for youth misuse of fire	Resource	save (472.5 KB)	child-centred, fire
08 May 2015	The Stress of Firefighting Presentation	Resource	save (454.21 KB)	fire, response
01 Sep 2016	You own the fuel, but who owns the fire? - Michael Eburn	Resource	save (328.64 KB)	fire, policy, risk management
24 May 2019	Public health and natural hazards: New policies and preparedness initiatives developed from an Australian bushfire case study	Resource	save (84.72 KB)	decision making, emergency management, fire
27 Oct 2014	The effects of fire-plume dynamics on the spread of long range spotting	Resource		fire, modelling
17 Oct 2019	Fuels3D	Resource	save (5.15 MB)	fire, fire impacts
18 Sep 2018	Hazard smart remote communities in Northern Australia	Resource	save (1.29 MB)	fire, Northern Australia
29 Jun 2018	Twenty five years with the RFS in north Queensland	Resource	save (1.08 MB)	fire, fire severity
01 Oct 2018	Keynote: Conflicting Evidence: prescribed burning: when ‘evidence’ is not the reality	Resource	save (6.32 MB)	fire, planning, prescribed burning
13 May 2020	National Fire Fuels Science webinar - The science of hazard reduction (webinar 2 of 3)	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
05 Jul 2016	Developing people for the north	Resource	save (631.08 KB)	fire, indigenous communities, Northern Australia
29 Jun 2017	Air permeability of the litter layer in temperate forests of south-east Australia	Resource	save (1.18 MB)	fire, prescribed burning
20 May 2020	National Fire Fuels Science webinar - The practice of hazard reduction (webinar 3 of 3)	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
27 Aug 2019	Detecting Active Fires using Himawari-8: a report from the NSW trial	Resource	save (2.9 MB)	fire, fire impacts
22 Jan 2021	The Australian Flammability Monitoring System: providing a clear picture of landscape dryness	Resource	save (768.18 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
10 Apr 2019	AFAC national activities overview	Resource	save (5.85 MB)	fire, fire impacts
11 Sep 2015	A bushfire evacuation planning service utilising multiple simulation systems	Resource	save (1.45 MB)	fire, planning, risk analysis