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
Effects of prenatal bushfire stress on life history traits in humans	Project		fire
Downscaling of soil dryness estimates: a short review	Biblio	save (1.56 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Multi-scaled calibration of high-resolution burnt area and fire severity mapping - workshop report	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, fire impacts, land management
Cropland fire behaviour	Project		fire, fire impacts, preparedness
Fire Risk Assessment of Combustible Exterior Cladding Using a Collective Numerical Database	Biblio	save (3.03 MB)	fire, infrastructure, risk management
Threshold Behaviour in Dynamic Fire Propagation Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (1.3 MB)	fire, propagation
Models for lightning-caused wildfire ignition	Project		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
Analysis of Variation in Distance, Number, and Distribution of Spotting in Southeast Australian Wildfires	Biblio	save (8.88 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Analysis of the physical processes associated with junction fires at laboratory and field scales	Biblio		emergency management, fire, planning
Methods for background temperature estimation in the context of active fire detection	Biblio	save (22.24 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
The Vegetation Structure Perpendicular Index (VSPI): A forest condition index for wildlife predictions	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
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
Integrating bushfire risk reduction and statutory mechanisms in South Australia	Biblio	save (753.84 KB)	fire, mitigation, modelling
Bushfire climatology in Victoria	Project		fire, fire weather
Modelling the dynamic behaviour of junction fires with a coupled fire-atmosphere model	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Fuels3D: annual project report 2017-18	Biblio	save (1004.83 KB)	fire
Sleep restriction across a simulated firefighting deployment: The impact on acute stress responses	Biblio	save (24.15 MB)	fire, response
Self-evacuation archetypes in Australian bushfire	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Simulated self-paced wildfire suppression work in different thermal conditions	Project		decision making, exposure, fire
A guide to reconstructing cropland wildfires – data collection, collation and analysis for case study construction	Biblio	save (2.54 MB)	fire, modelling, scenario analysis
Recirculation regions downstream of a canopy on a hill	Biblio	save (1.57 MB)	fire, land management, planning
Why don't bushfire warnings work as intended? Responses to official warnings during bushfires in New South Wales, Australia	Biblio		communities, fire, warnings
Simulations of the waroona fire with the access-fire coupled fire atmosphere model	Biblio	save (914.91 KB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
Perceptions of risk and connection to landscape	Biblio		communities, fire, risk management
Long-range spotting by bushfire plumes: The effects of plume dynamics and turbulence on firebrand trajectory	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
Incorporating convective feedback in wildfire simulations using pyrogenic potential	Biblio		fire, modelling, optimisation
LiDAR Application in Forest Fuel Measurements for Bushfire Hazard Mitigation	Biblio	save (3.34 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Firefighter involvement in Youth Justice Conferencing: Implications for fire prevention	Biblio		communities, education, fire
Tree recruitment dynamics in fire-prone eucalypt savanna	Biblio	save (3.67 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
How does remotely sensed degree of curing and fuel load vary in grasslands and effect modelled fire spread?	Project		fire, remote sensing
Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Models of buoyant plume rise	Biblio	save (1.3 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
The effect of ignition protocol on grassfire development	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Scientific advice for the development of a suppression effectiveness model to support strategic bushfire risk planning	Project		decision making, fire, governance
Investigation of spotting and intrinsic fire dynamics using a coupled atmosphere-fire modelling framework	Biblio	save (10.92 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
The Heatwaves of the 2013/14 Australian Summer Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (1.59 MB)	fire, forecasting
Risk and protection factors for bushfire resilience and recovery - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (203.71 KB)	fire, recovery, resilience
Savanna fire management and bushfire and natural hazard scenario planning for northern Australia: annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (2.82 MB)	fire, fire severity, fuel reduction
Feeling the heat: International perspectives on the prevention of wildfire ignition	Biblio		fire, planning, preparedness