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.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
	Valuing recovery through risk ownership	Biblio	save (893.83 KB)	fire, recovery, risk management
	Tympanic Temperature to Predict Core Temperatures of Firefighters Report	Biblio	save (690.93 KB)	fire, response
	Effect of weather forecast errors on fire growth model projections	Biblio		fire, fire severity, modelling
	Urban planning: historical changes integrating bushfire risk management in Victoria	Biblio		fire, planning, risk management
	Fighting fires and fatigue: sleep, physical activity, and physical task performance	Biblio	save (20.46 MB)	fire
	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
	Established and emerging uses of predictive services in Victoria	Biblio	save (895.93 KB)	emergency management, fire, firefighter
	Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind speed profiles	Biblio	save (988.48 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
	Assessment of potentially toxic metal contamination in the soils of a legacy mine site in Central Victoria, Australia.	Biblio		environments, fire, land management
	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
	Post-inquiry sensemaking: the case of the ‘Black Saturday’ bushfires	Biblio		fire, organisational, preparedness
	Making Sense of Natural Disasters: The Learning Vacuum of Bushfire Public Inquiries	Biblio		fire, organisational, preparedness
	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
	You own the fuel but who owns the fire?	Biblio	save (214.41 KB)	fire, fuel reduction, policy
	Terrestrial Laser Scanning: an operational tool for fuel hazard mapping?	Biblio		fire, prescribed burning, remote sensing
	Determination of smoldering time and thermal characteristics of firebrands under laboratory conditions	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
	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
	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
	Hazards, culture and indigenous communities: socio-institutional modules for utilisation	Biblio	save (1.22 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, modelling
	Lessons learned from a multidisciplinary investigation into the Waroona fire	Biblio	save (892.05 KB)	fire, fire impacts, scenario analysis
	Secondary Traumatic Stress in Postdisaster Field Research Interviewers	Biblio		communication, fire, recovery
	Investigating the activation of community fire units in the Blue Mountains during the October 2013 bushfires	Biblio	save (5.29 MB)	fire, local knowledge, volunteering
	Estimation of forest surface fuel load using airborne LiDAR data	Biblio	save (352.52 KB)	fire, modelling
	Fire spread across different fuel types: research and utilisation – final project report	Biblio	save (5.48 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
	Sleeping at work: not all about location, location, location	Biblio		fire
29 Jan 2021	How heatwaves and drought combine to produce the perfect firestorm	Blog		fire, fire severity, fire weather
08 Jan 2020	‘I can still picture the faces’: Black Saturday firefighters want you to listen to them, not call them ‘heroes’	Blog		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
07 Feb 2019	Ten years on, there is a bit of complacency in all of us	Blog		communication, communities, fire
05 Aug 2021	Bound to predict	Blog		climate change, fire, fire impacts
10 Dec 2019	It’s hard to breathe and you can’t think clearly – if you defend your home against a bushfire, be mentally prepared	Blog		communication, fire, preparedness
03 Apr 2020	1 in 10 children affected by bushfires is Indigenous. We’ve been ignoring them for too long	Blog		fire, indigenous communities, resilience
23 Aug 2019	Our new global plant water status database may prevent you from needing to fieldwork. What will you miss?	Blog		emergency management, fire, fire severity
07 Nov 2016	A great opportunity to network with colleagues	Blog		fire, fuel reduction
15 Oct 2015	Insights from South Korea	Blog		fire
15 Mar 2016	Communities of interest	Blog		communication, emergency management, fire
19 Mar 2019	Learning the media game	Blog		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
10 Jul 2020	Migrant voices in new disaster histories collection	Blog		communities, fire, vulnerability