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
How do weather and terrain contribute to firefighter entrapments in Australia?	Biblio		fire, firefighter, modelling
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Project		fire, fire severity, fire weather
Surviving bushfire: the role of shelters and sheltering practices during the Black Saturday bushfires	Biblio		communities, decision making, fire
Drivers of long-distance spotting during wildfires in south-eastern Australia	Biblio	save (3.97 MB)	fire, mitigation, prescribed burning
Cardiovascular Risk Screening Volunteer Firefighters Report	Biblio	save (648.89 KB)	fire, response
Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRF): utilities for WRF assessment and communication	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
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
A unified approach to fire spread modelling	Biblio	save (678.84 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire	Project		fire, infrastructure, resilience
Effectiveness of resources to supress bushfire: aerial and ground based	Project		capability, fire, fire severity
Using a worldview lens to examine complex policy issues: a historical review of bushfire management in the South West of Australia	Biblio		fire, governance, policy
Children, bushfire and climate change	Biblio		child-centred, fire, resilience
Validation of a novel attentional bias modification task: The future may be in the cards	Biblio		fire, response, risk management
Urban planning: historical changes integrating bushfire risk management in Victoria	Biblio		fire, planning, risk management
Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts – final project report	Biblio	save (1.94 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Locating gendered knowledge and practices in Aboriginal fire ecology	Project		fire, fire impacts, indigenous communities
Experiences with the global impacts of climate change	Biblio	save (1.26 MB)	climate change, fire, fire impacts
Studying leaf area density based wind adjustment factor in Spark	Biblio	save (3.49 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Large-eddy simulations of bushfire plumes in the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
Mapping Bushfire Hazard and Impacts Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (2.4 MB)	emergency management, fire, fire impacts
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
Determining threshold conditions for extreme bushfire behaviour annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (2.29 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Physics-based simulation of short-range spotting in wildfires	Biblio	save (21 MB)	fire, mitigation, modelling
Meteorological drivers of the eastern Victorian Black Summer (2019–2020) fires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, scenario analysis
The role of extreme value analysis to enhance defendable space for construction practice and planning in bushfire prone environments - peer viewed	Biblio	save (703.25 KB)	fire, infrastructure, planning
Estimating fire background temperature at a geostationary scale - an evaluation of contextual methods for AHI-8	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Terrestrial Laser Scanning: an operational tool for fuel hazard mapping?	Biblio		fire, prescribed burning, remote sensing
Improving land dryness measures and forecasts	Project		fire, flood, remote sensing
Integrating wildfire risk management and spatial planning – A historical review of two Australian planning systems	Biblio	save (2.03 MB)	exposure, fire, infrastructure
Downscaling of soil dryness estimates: a short review	Biblio	save (1.56 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Smoke transportation and emissions modelling	Project		fire, modelling
Near real-time extracting wildfire spread rate from Himawari-8 satellite data	Biblio	save (3.36 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Dynamic modelling of fire coalescence	Biblio	save (4.5 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
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
Ardity index as a predictor of the hydrogeomorphic response of burnt landscapes	Project		fire, fuel reduction, land management
Analysis of the physical processes associated with junction fires at laboratory and field scales	Biblio		emergency management, fire, planning
RUIM – A fire safety engineering model for rural urban interface firefighter taskforce deployment	Biblio		fire, firefighter, organisational
Fire spread across different fuel types: research and utilisation – final project report	Biblio	save (5.48 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Climate Change Significantly Alters Future Wildfire Mitigation Opportunities in Southeastern Australia	Biblio		climate change, fire, prescribed burning
Understanding spatial patterns of wildfire occurrence in south eastern Australia	Project		fire, fire impacts