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
Bushfire climatology in Victoria	Project		fire, fire weather
Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (1.52 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
A Live Fuel Moisture Content Product from Landsat TM Satellite Time Series for Implementation in Fire Behavior Models	Biblio	save (4.32 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, remote sensing
Community preparedness and responses to the 2017 NSW bushfires	Biblio	save (561.7 KB)	communities, fire, fire impacts
Fire, water and everyday life: Bushfire and household defence in a changing climate	Biblio		communities, fire, vulnerability
Near real-time extracting wildfire spread rate from Himawari-8 satellite data	Biblio	save (3.36 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Simulated self-paced wildfire suppression work in different thermal conditions	Project		decision making, exposure, fire
A comparison of the performance of Australian Standard smoke alarms in real fire tests when compared to standards-compliant devices from other jurisdictions	Project		fire, risk analysis, warnings
Black Summer Victorian bushfire case studies	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Secondary Traumatic Stress in Postdisaster Field Research Interviewers	Biblio		communication, fire, recovery
Kinetics of pyrolysis of litter materials from pine and eucalyptus forests	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, propagation
We have not lived long enough: sensemaking and learning from bushfires in Australia	Biblio	save (9.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts
Estimation of forest surface fuel load using airborne LiDAR data	Biblio	save (352.52 KB)	fire, modelling
Using discrete event simulation cellular automata models to determine multi-mode travel times and routes of terrestrial suppression resources to wildland fires	Biblio		emergency management, fire
Statistical models for the location of lightning caused wildfire ignitions	Biblio	save (5.69 MB)	fire, mitigation
How do wet forests burn? : Fuels and fire danger in the world’s tallest flowering forest	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, land management
Sheltering practices during bushfire	Biblio	save (1.66 MB)	communities, fire, policy
Incorporating firebrands and spot fires into vorticity-driven wildfire behaviour models	Biblio	save (3.04 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Effects of prenatal bushfire stress on life history traits in humans	Project		fire
Analysis of Variation in Distance, Number, and Distribution of Spotting in Southeast Australian Wildfires	Biblio	save (8.88 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Modelling wind direction distributions using a diagnostic model in the context of probabilistic fire spread prediction	Biblio	save (9.25 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
A comparison of terrestrial and UAS sensors for measuring fuel hazard in a dry sclerophyll forest	Biblio	save (5.54 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, remote sensing
Encouraging evacuation: the role of behavioural message inputs in bushfire warnings	Biblio		communication, fire, warnings
Investigating surface and near-surface bushfire fuel attributes: a comparison between visual assessments and image-based point clouds	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Post-inquiry sensemaking: the case of the ‘Black Saturday’ bushfires	Biblio		fire, organisational, preparedness
Threshold Behaviour in Dynamic Fire Propagation Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (1.3 MB)	fire, propagation
Emerging technologies for estimating fuel hazard	Biblio	save (2.85 MB)	capability, fire, remote sensing
Next generation Fuels 3D remote sensing	Project		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Investigation of firebrand production during prescribed fires conducted in a pine forest	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Social values in bushfire management decision making	Project		decision making, economics, fire
What are the safety implications of dynamic fire behaviours?	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Firefighter involvement in Youth Justice Conferencing: Implications for fire prevention	Biblio		communities, education, fire
Simulation of fuel bed ignition by wildland firebrands	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, modelling
The spread of fires in landscapes	Biblio	save (1.58 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Large-eddy simulation of neutral atmospheric surface layer flow over heterogeneous tree canopies	Biblio	save (1.28 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
The effect of ignition protocol on grassfire development	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Black Summer - how the NSW community responded to the 2019-20 bushfire season	Biblio	save (2.89 MB)	communication, communities, fire
Feeling the heat: International perspectives on the prevention of wildfire ignition	Biblio		fire, planning, preparedness
How does remotely sensed degree of curing and fuel load vary in grasslands and effect modelled fire spread?	Project		fire, remote sensing