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 Oct 2014	The effect of the degree of grass curing on the behaviour of grassland fires	Resource		fire, propagation
16 Dec 2020	AFAC Webinar 'Where are we going with soil moisture' 2020	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, land management
19 Sep 2018	Physics-based modelling of fires transitioning from the forest floor to the canopy	Resource	save (840.15 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
17 Jun 2020	Q&A with Dr Valerie Densmore - National Fire Fuels Science webinar: the practice of hazard reduction	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
07 Sep 2017	A unified approach to fire spread modelling	Resource	save (4.06 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
29 Mar 2017	Can we predict bushfires from space?—Dr Marta Yebra	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
29 Jun 2018	Review of seasonal bushfire outlook	Resource	save (1.1 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
31 Jul 2020	Bushfire lessons from cultural burns	Resource		fire, indigenous communities, land management
18 Aug 2015	Refinement and Validation of Firebrand Transport Sub Model for a Physics Based Bushfire Prediction Model: Design of a Firebrand Generator	Resource	save (188.99 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
29 Jun 2017	Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain for bushfire modelling	Resource	save (2.33 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
18 Aug 2015	Meteorology of the Sampson Flat Fire in January 2015	Resource	save (1.63 MB)	fire, fire weather
27 Aug 2019	Detecting Active Fires using Himawari-8: a report from the NSW trial	Resource	save (2.9 MB)	fire, fire impacts
30 Aug 2016	The social life of science: tales from Victoria and the Northern Territory - Jessica Weir	Resource	save (1.49 MB)	decision making, fire, policy
06 May 2020	Webinar 1 (6 May): Sarah Harris presentation	Resource	save (4.4 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
08 Sep 2014	Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves	Resource	save (1.7 MB)	fire, flood, forecasting
25 Nov 2020	Satellites to help show when the bush is ready to burn	Resource		fire, remote sensing, vulnerability
10 Apr 2019	AFAC national activities overview	Resource	save (5.85 MB)	fire, fire impacts
08 May 2015	The Effect of Heat on Firefighters' Work Behaviour and Physiology Poster	Resource	save (9.71 MB)	fire, response
07 Jul 2017	Three Minute Thesis: attribution of active fire using simulated fire landscapes	Resource	save (132.79 KB)	fire, modelling
24 Oct 2016	Flammable grassy weeds	Resource	save (3.42 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, Northern Australia
20 May 2020	Webinar 3 (20 May): Adam Leavesley presentation	Resource	save (4.22 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
17 Oct 2019	The Savanna and Rangelands Monitoring and Evaluation Reporting Framework (SMERF)	Resource	save (8.51 MB)	fire, Northern Australia
04 Dec 2014	Threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour	Resource	save (610.43 KB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
19 Sep 2018	A new soil dryness product for fire prediction applications	Resource	save (1.97 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
03 Jul 2015	Northern Satellite based Curing and Fuels	Resource	save (2.27 MB)	fire, fuel reduction
18 Aug 2015	Disaster Landscape Attribution: from the Ground to Space: Validation of TET-1 and HIMAWARI-8 for Active Fire Detection	Resource	save (488.84 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
22 Feb 2019	Ten years on, there is a bit of complacency in all of us	Resource		communication, fire, land management
03 Jul 2018	National intiatives - fire danger ratings, professionalisation	Resource	save (4.52 MB)	fire, fire impacts, savanna grasslands
24 Apr 2015	Bushfire risk perception: a study of the perceived vulnerability of domestic architecture in bushfire prone areas 2	Resource	save (412.98 KB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
23 Nov 2018	Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts	Resource	save (5.9 MB)	fire, fire impacts
27 Aug 2019	Disaster and economic resilience in small regional communities: the case of Toodyay	Resource	save (433.35 KB)	fire, optimisation
12 Aug 2016	The Australian flammability monitoring system	Resource	save (362.43 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
31 Oct 2017	Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts: developing spatial information on fire hazard for planners, land managers and emergency services	Resource	save (1.32 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
21 Mar 2014	Fire spread prediction across fuel types	Resource	save (1.49 MB)	fire, modelling, prescribed burning
29 Jun 2017	The Australian Flammability Monitoring System	Resource	save (1.79 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
27 Aug 2019	ACCESS-Fire	Resource	save (11.32 MB)	fire, modelling
13 May 2020	Webinar 2 (13 May): Neil Burrows presentation	Resource	save (4.9 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
07 Aug 2014	Community Members' Responses to Bushfire Threat	Resource	save (1.17 MB)	communities, decision making, fire
09 Dec 2020	The Prescribed Burning Atlas: a new system to plan effective prescribed burns	Resource	save (872.25 KB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
18 Sep 2018	Factors contributing to firefighters' mental health and wellbeing	Resource	save (899.79 KB)	emergency management, fire