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
From hectares to tailor made solutions for risk mitigation	Project		fire, prescribed burning, risk management
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
The Vegetation Structure Perpendicular Index (VSPI): A forest condition index for wildlife predictions	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Post-inquiry sensemaking: the case of the ‘Black Saturday’ bushfires	Biblio		fire, organisational, preparedness
Comparison of soil wetness from multiple models over Australia with observations	Biblio		fire, flood, remote sensing
Mesoscale features related to the Blue Mountains fires of 17 October 2013 revealed by high resolution Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) modelling	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
Initial growth of fires in eucalypt litter, from ignition to steady-state rate of spread: laboratory studies	Biblio		fire, response
Fuels3D: annual project report 2017-18	Biblio	save (1004.83 KB)	fire
Self-evacuation archetypes in Australian bushfire	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Disaster landscape attribution: fire surveillance and hazard mapping, data scaling and validation: Annual project report	Biblio	save (1.54 MB)	fire, land management, remote sensing
Experiments on the influence of spot fire and topography interaction on fire rate of spread	Biblio	save (1.63 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Disaster landscape attribution: annual report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.22 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Physics-based modelling of junction fires: Parametric study	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Modelling forest fuel temporal change using LiDAR	Project		fire, modelling
Estimating fire background temperature at a geostationary scale - an evaluation of contextual methods for AHI-8	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Linking local wildfire dynamics to pyroCB development - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (145.88 KB)	fire, modelling
Near real-time extracting wildfire spread rate from Himawari-8 satellite data	Biblio	save (3.36 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
A comparison and validation of satellite-derived fire severity mapping techniques in fire prone north Australian savannas: Extreme fires and tree stem mortality	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Evaluation of the feasibility and benefits of operational use of alternative satellite data in the Australian Flammability Monitoring System to ensure long-term data continuity	Biblio	save (790.91 KB)	fire, modelling, optimisation
Physical and fire behaviour characterisation of bushland fuels	Project		fire, modelling, propagation