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
Science in Motion: integrating scientific knowledge into bushfire risk mitigation in southwest Victoria	Biblio	save (211.26 KB)	fire, mitigation, planning
Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind speed profiles	Biblio	save (1.08 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Implementation of spatially-varying wind adjustment factor for wildfire simulations	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
January 2020 NSW bushfires study	Biblio	save (579.61 KB)	fire, fire impacts, response
Examining bushfire policy in action: Preparedness and behaviour in the 2009 Black Saturday fires	Biblio	save (438.46 KB), save (513.82 KB)	communities, fire, policy
Modelling emissions from prescribed burning using FULLCAM	Biblio	save (1.69 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
Enhanced estimation of background temperature for fire detection using new geostationary sensors	Biblio	save (538.96 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Calculation of critical water flow rates for wildfire suppression	Biblio	save (1.69 MB)	fire, firefighter, response
Identification and quantitative analysis of smoldering and flaming combustion of Radiata Pine	Biblio		fire, modelling, propagation
Exponential random graph modelling of emergency collaboration network	Biblio		fire, response
Geographic Patterns of Fire Severity Following an Extreme Eucalyptus Forest Fire in Southern Australia: 2013 Forcett-Dunalley Fire	Biblio	save (8 MB)	fire, fire weather, remote sensing
Cost effectiveness of fire management strategies in southern Australia	Biblio		fire, modelling, organisational
A bushfire evacuation planning service utilising multiple simulation systems - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (292.86 KB)	fire, planning
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
Large-eddy simulations of pyro-convection and its sensitivity to mositure	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
Fire-driven decline of endemic Allosyncarpia monsoon rainforests in Northern Australia	Biblio		environments, fire, land management
A comparison between TLS and UAS LiDAR to represent eucalypt crown fuel characteristics	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Changing Fire Regimes in Tropical and Subtropical Australia	Biblio	save (7.08 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
Risks and opportunities for sustainable savanna fire management	Biblio	save (2.07 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
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
Human error during the multilevel responses to three Australian bushfire disasters	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, fire
Representing vapour and capillary rise from the soil improves a leaf litter moisture model	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, modelling
Deriving comprehensive forest structure information from mobile laser scanning observations using automated point cloud classification	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
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
Efficiency of Individual Tree Detection Approaches Based on Light-Weight and Low-Cost UAS Imagery in Australian Savannas	Biblio		fire, Northern Australia, remote sensing
Urban planning capabilities for bushfire: treatment categories and scenario testing	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, planning, scenario analysis
Development of a predictive model for estimating forest surface fuel load in Australian eucalypt forests with LiDAR data	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Tympanic Temperature to Predict Core Temperatures of Firefighters Report	Biblio	save (690.93 KB)	fire, response
Urban planning: historical changes integrating bushfire risk management in Victoria	Biblio		fire, planning, risk management
Learning to learn from bushfire: Perspectives from Victorian emergency management practitioners	Biblio		emergency management, fire, organisational
Effect of relative humidity on grassfire propagation	Biblio	save (1.42 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Biblio		emergency management, fire, physics
Sampling and data analysis of field sites in NSW	Biblio	save (1.47 MB)	fire, fuel reduction
Experiences with the global impacts of climate change	Biblio	save (1.26 MB)	climate change, fire, fire impacts
Numerical study on effect of relative humidity (and fuel moisture) on modes of grassfire propagation	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Mapping Bushfire Hazard and Impacts Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (1.82 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Determining threshold conditions for extreme bushfire behaviour annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (2.29 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Advances in the remote sensing of active fires: a review	Biblio	save (1.79 MB)	emergency management, fire, remote sensing
How does remotely sensed degree of curing and fuel load vary in grasslands and effect modelled fire spread?	Biblio	save (5.01 MB)	fire, remote sensing
Physics-based simulation of short-range spotting in wildfires	Biblio	save (21 MB)	fire, mitigation, modelling