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
17 Sep 2014	Bushfire season 2014: Prepare yourself, prepare your family and prepare your home, warns the RFS	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather, warnings
17 Sep 2014	Bushfire worry as "worse than normal" fire season looms	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather
09 Sep 2014	Above average bushfire threat for Goldfields Midland region this summer	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather, forecasting
08 Sep 2014	Next generation models for predicting the behaviour of bushfires	Resource	save (1.12 MB)	fire, modelling
08 Sep 2014	Australia facing 'above normal' bushfire season	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather
08 Sep 2014	The effects of fire plume dynamics on the lateral and longitudinal spread of long-range spotting	Resource	save (2.25 MB)	fire, fire impacts
08 Sep 2014	Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves	Resource	save (1.7 MB)	fire, flood, forecasting
08 Sep 2014	Record temperatures trail a blaze	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather
08 Sep 2014	The effect of the degree of grass curing on the behaviour of grassland fires	Resource	save (17.65 MB)	fire
08 Sep 2014	The heatwaves of the 2013/14 Australian summer	Resource	save (1.92 MB)	fire, forecasting
08 Sep 2014	Threshold behaviour in dynamic fire propagation	Resource	save (2.41 MB)	fire, propagation
03 Sep 2014	Bushfire risk warning	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather
03 Sep 2014	WA warned of summer fire danger	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather
02 Sep 2014	Fire season threatens despite rain	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather
02 Sep 2014	Despite the August rain, another active fire season threatens	Press Clipping		environments, fire
02 Sep 2014	Australian bushfire outlook 2014 - 15	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather
02 Sep 2014	Bushfire outlook sends timely reminder to communities	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather
07 Aug 2014	Measuring the impacts of bushfires on human fatalities and building losses	Resource	save (3.25 MB)	engineering, fire
07 Aug 2014	Building at the interface	Resource	save (6.7 MB)	fire, fire impacts
07 Aug 2014	Community Members' Responses to Bushfire Threat	Resource	save (1.17 MB)	communities, decision making, fire
08 May 2014	Research to Drive Change	News		fire
21 Mar 2014	Fire management training for northern Australia	Resource	save (1.22 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, Northern Australia
21 Mar 2014	Fire spread prediction across fuel types	Resource	save (1.49 MB)	fire, modelling, prescribed burning
19 Mar 2014	Scientific diversity and uncertainty - bushfire and flood risk mitigation	Resource	save (241.15 KB)	fire, flood, risk management
11 Feb 2014	Summer fires 2013-14	News		fire
	Particle tracking and detection software for firebrands characterization in wildland fires	Biblio		fire, fire severity, physics
	Using videos in floods and bushfires to educate, signal risk, and promote protective action in the community	Biblio		communication, fire, flood
	Evaluation and calibration of a land surface based soil moisture for fire danger ratings	Biblio	save (872.28 KB)	fire, soil moisture
	Deconstructing factors contributing to the 2018 fire weather in Queensland, Australia	Biblio	save (932.55 KB)	climate change, fire, fire weather
	Demographic profiling: Victorian bushfires 2009 case study	Biblio	save (12.2 MB)	communities, fire, fire impacts
	Making the landscape “home”: Narratives of bushfire and place in Australia	Biblio		fire, risk management
	An organisational response to Stage 3 Geography and the study of a contemporary bushfire event	Biblio	save (533.99 KB)	child-centred, education, fire
	Identifying water sources using satellite imagery	Project		fire, fire weather, remote sensing
	Predicting dead fine fuel moisture at regional scales using vapour pressure deficit from MODIS and gridded weather data	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, modelling
	Psychophysiological relationships between a multi-component self-report measure of mood, stress and behavioural signs and symptoms, and physiological stress responses during a simulated firefighting deployment	Biblio		decision making, fire
	Development of an interface using penalisation method for improving computational performance of bushfire simulation tools	Biblio	save (10.13 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
	Modelling of radiant heat flux and rate of spread of wildfire within the urban environment	Biblio	save (5.16 MB)	fire, fire impacts, propagation
	From hectares to tailor-made solutions for risk mitigation: annual project report 2018-19	Biblio	save (834.62 KB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
	Developing guidelines for increasing the resilience of informal settlements exposed to wildfire risk using a risk-based planning approach	Biblio		communities, fire, resilience
	Wildfire suppression – an international analysis of operations, strategy and firefighter safety	Biblio	save (9.29 MB)	fire, fire impacts, response