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
Understanding spatial patterns of wildfire occurrence in south eastern Australia	Project		fire, fire impacts
Cropland fire behaviour	Project		fire, fire impacts, preparedness
Modelling forest fuel temporal change using LiDAR	Project		fire, modelling
Exploring ISO31000 Risk Management during Dynamic Fire and Emergency Operations in Western Australia	Biblio	save (553.18 KB)	fire, firefighter, risk management
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
Remote sensing applied to bushfire	Project		fire, remote sensing
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
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
Effects of prenatal bushfire stress on life history traits in humans	Biblio	save (6.95 MB)	fire, fire impacts, risk management
Fuels3D: annual project report 2017-18	Biblio	save (1004.83 KB)	fire
How do residents in bushfire prone areas view the risk of their local area and homes?	Biblio	save (676.88 KB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
Increasing the comprehensiveness of bushfire risk management in Victoria through the planning system	Biblio	save (791.82 KB)	fire, planning, risk management
Extreme fire behaviours: Surveying fire management staff to determine behaviour frequencies and importance	Biblio	save (414.7 KB)	emergency management, fire, fire severity
Think long term: the costs and benefits of prescribed burning in the south west of Western Australia	Biblio	save (207.03 KB)	economics, fire, prescribed burning
Cardiac autonomic impacts of bushfire smoke – A prospective panel study	Biblio		exposure, fire, fire impacts
Fire in the south: a cross-continental exchange	Biblio	save (6.19 MB)	fire, indigenous communities
Fighting fires and fatigue	Project		fire
Simulations of the waroona fire with the access-fire coupled fire atmosphere model	Biblio	save (914.91 KB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
Spatially forecasting coupled litter and root moisture dynamics for bushfire management	Project		fire, fire impacts, modelling
Incorporating convective feedback in wildfire simulations using pyrogenic potential	Biblio		fire, modelling, optimisation
Firefighter involvement in Youth Justice Conferencing: Implications for fire prevention	Biblio		communities, education, fire
Reducing the risk of house loss due to wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, risk management
Statistical Characterisation Of Wind Fields Over Complex Terrain With Applications In Bushfire Modelling	Biblio	save (30.13 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Predicting dead fine fuel moisture at regional scales using vapour pressure deficit from MODIS and gridded weather data	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, modelling
Scientific advice for the development of a suppression effectiveness model to support strategic bushfire risk planning	Project		decision making, fire, governance
A theoretical framework for negotiating the path of emergency management multi-agency coordination	Biblio		emergency management, fire
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
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
Use of remote sensing measurements and data assimilation techniques to improve estimates of landscape dryness	Biblio	save (1.64 MB)	fire, land management, soil moisture
The contribution of turbulent plume dynamics to long-range spotting	Biblio		fire, fire weather, propagation
Feeling the heat: International perspectives on the prevention of wildfire ignition	Biblio		fire, planning, preparedness
Simulated Self-Paced Wildfire Suppression Work in Different Thermal Conditions	Biblio	save (13.55 MB)	decision making, exposure, fire
Established and emerging uses of predictive services	Project		emergency management, fire, firefighter
Quantifying fuel hazard assessments - Fuels3D annual report 2019-2020	Biblio	save (663.64 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Coupled fire atmosphere modelling annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (467.49 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Integrated urban planning for natural hazard mitigation	Biblio	save (2.41 MB)	fire, mitigation, risk analysis
Struggling to make sense of it all: the emotional process of sensemaking following an extreme incident	Biblio		emergency management, fire, organisational