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
Development of seasonal fire prediction tools	Project	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Predicting fire danger ratings from physical measures of fire behaviour	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Assessment framework for the evaluation of wildfire risk reduction strategies	Project	economics, fire
Agency experts supporting bushfire disaster resilience education for primary school students: a case study in NSW	Project	child-centred, education, fire
Towards fire-adaptive communities in Australia	Project	communities, fire, resilience
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Project	fire, fire severity, fire weather
The role of urban planning in urban fire mitigation	Project	fire, mitigation, planning
Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire	Project	fire, infrastructure, resilience
Mapping the area of Tathra to study, if Mechanical Fuel Load Reduction (MFLR) along with prescribed burning can save houses (in future) at Tathra NSW	Project	fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
Coexisting with fire: Integrating resilient landscape design principles within broader urban place making policy for bushfire risk reduction in Australia	Project	fire, mitigation, policy
Planning for Bushfires on the Rural-Urban Interface: An analysis of the correlations between house setbacks and house loss as evidence of house-to-house fire spread in the 2009 Victorian Bushfires	Project	engineering, fire, planning
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
Improving land dryness measures and forecasts	Project	fire, flood, remote sensing
Smoke transportation and emissions modelling	Project	fire, modelling
The viability of shared responsibility in relation to wildﬁre prevention in Victoria and California	Project	fire, fire impacts, planning
Scientific advice for the development of a suppression effectiveness model to support strategic bushfire risk planning	Project	decision making, fire, governance
An evaluation of Youth Justice Conferencing for youth misuse of fire	Project	child-centred, fire
Parenting after a disaster - experiences since Black Saturday	Project	child-centred, fire, recovery
Established and emerging uses of predictive services	Project	emergency management, fire, firefighter
A multilevel approach to fire severity using remote sensing, environmental factors and plant ecology	Project	fire, fire impacts, land management
Investigating the effect of soil moisture, temperature and precipitation extremes on fire risk and intensity in Australia	Project	fire
Fire transitions across urban boundaries	Project	fire
Sensitivity of the Empirical Mode Decomposition and its application to environmental data	Project	fire
User interface platform for the Victorian historical fire weather gridded dataset	Project	fire, fire impacts
Dynamics of litterfall and fine fuels after fire in sclerophyll forests and woodlands	Project	environments, fire, fire impacts
A strategic analysis of preventable residential fire fatalities	Project	fire, risk analysis, vulnerability
Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRF): utilities for WRF assessment and communication	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Assessment and calibration of fuel moisture sensors	Project	fire, prescribed burning
Through the flames - quantitative analysis of strategic and tactical wildfire suppression	Project	fire, fire impacts, response
Approaches for investigating fire impacts on catchment hydrology	Project	fire, hydrology
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
Refinement and validation of the pyrolysis and firebrand transport sub-models for a physics based bushfire prediction model	Project	fire, modelling
Bushfire climatology in Victoria	Project	fire, fire weather
Simulated self-paced wildfire suppression work in different thermal conditions	Project	decision making, exposure, fire
Cropland fire behaviour	Project	fire, fire impacts, preparedness
Ardity index as a predictor of the hydrogeomorphic response of burnt landscapes	Project	fire, fuel reduction, land management
Understanding spatial patterns of wildfire occurrence in south eastern Australia	Project	fire, fire impacts
Effects of prenatal bushfire stress on life history traits in humans	Project	fire
Remote sensing applied to bushfire	Project	fire, remote sensing
Domestic architecture and the perception of risk in bushfire-prone areas	Project	communities, fire, risk analysis