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
	Household decision making in bushfire self evacuation	Project		decision making, fire
	Household preparedness for bushfires: the role of residents' engagement with information sources	Biblio	save (1.61 MB)	communication, fire, preparedness
	How chief officers view success in fire policy and management	Biblio		fire, governance, policy
24 Apr 2015	How do residents in bushfire prone areas view the risk of their homes?	Resource	save (413.6 KB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
24 Apr 2015	How do residents in bushfire prone areas view the risk of their homes?	Resource	save (2.1 MB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
	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
	How do weather and terrain contribute to firefighter entrapments in Australia?	Biblio		fire, firefighter, modelling
	How do wet forests burn? : Fuels and fire danger in the world’s tallest flowering forest	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, land management
	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
	How does remotely sensed degree of curing and fuel load vary in grasslands and effect modelled fire spread?	Project		fire, remote sensing
29 Jan 2021	How heatwaves and drought combine to produce the perfect firestorm	Blog		fire, fire severity, fire weather
24 Jan 2019	Human dimensions and funding hopes	Blog		capability, fire
	Human error during the multilevel responses to three Australian bushfire disasters	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, fire
22 Feb 2021	IAWF student scholarships now open	News		capability, education, fire
23 Sep 2020	Ideas shared on France–Australia bushfire science	News		climate change, fire, resilience
	Identification and quantitative analysis of smoldering and flaming combustion of Radiata Pine	Biblio		fire, modelling, propagation
	Identifying water sources using satellite imagery	Project		fire, fire weather, remote sensing
19 Sep 2018	Ignitability of eucalyptus litters	Resource	save (980.44 KB)	fire, modelling
	Impact of Australia's catastrophic 2019/20 bushfire season on communities and environment. Retrospective analysis and current trends	Biblio	save (1.34 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
18 Aug 2015	Impact of Vegetation Regrowth on Wind Direction Over Complex Terrain	Resource	save (250.9 KB)	fire, severe weather
	Implementation of a new algorithm resulting in improvements in accuracy and resolution of SEVIRI hotspot products	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
	Implementation of spatially-varying wind adjustment factor for wildfire simulations	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
29 Jun 2017	Improved measures and forecasts of soil dryness	Resource	save (1.17 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
	Improvement of drag model for non-burning firebrand transport in Fire Dynamics Simulator	Biblio		fire, modelling
	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
	Improving decision support tools for conservation of fire-adapted ecosystems in southern Australia, through integrated simulation of reproductive ecology and landscape dynamics	Project		fire, modelling
18 Aug 2015	Improving Fire Risk Estimation through Investigating Fire Intensity, Moisture and Temperature Anomalies	Resource	save (426.3 KB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
	Improving land dryness measures and forecasts	Project		fire, flood, remote sensing
30 Jun 2017	Improving our knowledge of the mental health and wellbeing of firefighters	Resource	save (570.31 KB)	emergency management, fire
	Incorporating convective feedback in wildfire simulations using pyrogenic potential	Biblio		fire, modelling, optimisation
	Incorporating firebrands and spot fires into vorticity-driven wildfire behaviour models	Biblio	save (3.04 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
29 Jun 2017	Incorporation of spotting and fire dynamics in a coupled atmosphere - fire modelling framework	Resource	save (1.76 MB)	fire, modelling
11 Nov 2016	Increasing cost of natural hazards as climate changes	News		fire, fire severity, fire weather
	Increasing the comprehensiveness of bushfire risk management in Victoria through the planning system	Biblio	save (791.82 KB)	fire, planning, risk management
29 Jun 2018	Indigenous cultures in the north	Resource	save (954.79 KB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
18 Aug 2015	Influence of Fire Regime Variables and Growth Stage Distributions on Biodiviersity in Victorian Foothills Forest	Resource	save (454.46 KB)	fire, fire impacts
	Informing Queensland's bushfire review 2018	Project		communication, fire, fire impacts
	Initial growth of fires in eucalypt litter, from ignition to steady-state rate of spread: laboratory studies	Biblio		fire, response
	Initiation of biomass smouldering combustion in bushfires	Project		fire, prescribed burning
18 Aug 2015	Initiation of Smouldering Combustion in Biomass	Resource	save (256.11 KB)	fire