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
Calculation of critical water flow rates for wildfire suppression	Biblio	save (1.69 MB)	fire, firefighter, response
Approaches for investigating wildfire impacts on catchment hydrology	Biblio	save (2.91 MB)	environments, fire, fire impacts
Simulation of flows through canopies with varying atmospheric stability	Biblio	save (739.35 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Taking fire: the historical and contemporary politics of Indigenous burning in Australia and the western United States	Project		fire, indigenous communities
Assessing Metrics for Estimating Fire Induced Change in the Forest Understorey Structure Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning	Biblio	save (9.28 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Effects of Sydney coastal dry sclerophyll forest litter on fuels and fire behaviour in Hornsby shire	Biblio	save (2.29 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fuel reduction
Satellite Remote Sensing Contributions to Wildland Fire Science and Management	Biblio		fire, remote sensing, risk management
A comparison between TLS and UAS LiDAR to represent eucalypt crown fuel characteristics	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Mitigating the Effects of Severe Fires, Floods and Heatwaves Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (641.54 KB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
Fire-driven decline of endemic Allosyncarpia monsoon rainforests in Northern Australia	Biblio		environments, fire, land management
Representing vapour and capillary rise from the soil improves a leaf litter moisture model	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, modelling
Southeast Australia Aboriginal fire forum	Biblio	save (2.31 MB)	fire, fire impacts, Northern Australia
Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: considerations in content, representation and design	Project		communication, communities, fire
The Theory/Practice of Disaster Justice: Learning from Indigenous Peoples’ Fire Management	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, resilience
Simulated behaviour of wildland fire spreading through idealised heterogeneous fuels	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Disaster Risk Reduction in Bushfire Prone Areas: Challenges for an Integrated Land Use Planning Policy Regime	Biblio		fire, planning, risk management
Utilization of remote sensing techniques for the quantification of fire behavior in two pine stands	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Simulating the effectiveness of prescribed burning at altering wildfire behaviour in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Project		fire, fire severity, fire weather
Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Modelling	Biblio	save (563.46 KB)	fire, forecasting, modelling
Cardiovascular Risk Screening Volunteer Firefighters Report	Biblio	save (648.89 KB)	fire, response
Where do we put our dollars? Economic analysis of different bushfire management options in Western Australia	Biblio	save (391.13 KB)	economics, emergency management, fire
Learning to learn from bushfire: Perspectives from Victorian emergency management practitioners	Biblio		emergency management, fire, organisational
Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire	Project		fire, infrastructure, resilience
Investigating bird responses to fire in the Heathy Dry Forests of Victoria, Australia	Project		fire, fire impacts
Physics based simulations of grassfire propagation in patchy fuel beds and slopped terrain - a parametric study	Project		fire, fire impacts
Effect of weather forecast errors on fire growth model projections	Biblio		fire, fire severity, modelling
Validation of a novel attentional bias modification task: The future may be in the cards	Biblio		fire, response, risk management
Youth Justice Conferencing for youth misuse of fire: a child-centred disaster risk reduction mechanism	Biblio	save (181.58 KB)	child-centred, fire
Numerical study on effect of relative humidity (and fuel moisture) on modes of grassfire propagation	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Evolution of an extreme Pyrocumulonimbus-driven wildfire event in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio	save (844.71 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour - annual report 2019-2020	Biblio	save (2.59 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Sampling and data analysis of field sites in NSW	Biblio	save (1.47 MB)	fire, fuel reduction
Experiences of sheltering during the Black Saturday bushfires: Implications for policy and research	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, vulnerability
Mapping how outputs from various Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC projects could be combined to address the issue of how to best manage fuel to reduce bushfire risk into the future	Biblio	save (3.47 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, risk management
The Effects of Fire-Plume Dynamics on the Lateral and Longitudinal Spread of Long-Range Spotting Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (1.21 MB)	fire, modelling
Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: considerations in content, representation and design	Biblio	save (3.91 MB)	communication, fire, modelling
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
Culturally appropriate mapping tools for informing two-way fire management planning in remote indigenous north Australian communities - peer viewed	Biblio	save (531.79 KB)	fire, Northern Australia, planning
Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (1.52 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity