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.

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Fire spread prediction across fuel types: annual report 2018-19	Biblio	save (2.61 MB)	fire, fire severity, fuel reduction
Walking together: a decolonising experiment in bushfire management on Dja Dja Wurrung country	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Representing vapour and capillary rise from the soil improves a leaf litter moisture model	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, modelling
The Theory/Practice of Disaster Justice: Learning from Indigenous Peoples’ Fire Management	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, resilience
Risks and opportunities for sustainable savanna fire management	Biblio	save (2.07 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
Investigation of firebrand generation from an experimental fire: development of a reliable data collection methodology	Biblio		fire, fire weather, propagation
Carbon loss from planned fires in southeastern Australian dry Eucalyptus forests	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction
The Australian Flammability Monitoring System	Biblio	save (805.45 KB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
A response to comments of Cruz et al. on: ‘Simulation study of grass fire using a physics-based model: striving towards numerical rigour and the effect of grass height on the rate of spread’	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Implementation of spatially-varying wind adjustment factor for wildfire simulations	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
A fuel moisture content and flammability monitoring methodology for continental Australia based on optical remote sensing	Biblio		emergency management, fire, savanna grasslands
Mitigating the Effects of Severe Fires, Floods and Heatwaves Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (1.12 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
Learning to learn from bushfire: Perspectives from Victorian emergency management practitioners	Biblio		emergency management, fire, organisational
Children, bushfire and climate change	Biblio		child-centred, fire, resilience
Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts – final project report	Biblio	save (1.94 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Numerical study on effect of relative humidity (and fuel moisture) on modes of grassfire propagation	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Evolution of an extreme Pyrocumulonimbus-driven wildfire event in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio	save (844.71 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
A moveable beast: subjective influence of human-animal relationships on risk perception and risk behaviour during bushfire threat	Biblio		animals, decision making, fire
Mapping how outputs from various Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC projects could be combined to address the issue of how to best manage fuel to reduce bushfire risk into the future	Biblio	save (3.47 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, risk management
Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: considerations in content, representation and design	Biblio	save (3.91 MB)	communication, fire, modelling
Simulated behaviour of wildland fire spreading through idealised heterogeneous fuels	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Valuing recovery through risk ownership	Biblio	save (893.83 KB)	fire, recovery, risk management
Reducing bushfire risk to vulnerable community members through health and community services agencies – business continuity approach	Biblio	save (687.64 KB)	communities, emergency management, fire
Case study: use of remote sensing data to derive spatial and temporal explicit fuel accumulation curves across defence lands	Biblio	save (2.79 MB)	fire, land management, remote sensing
Drivers of long-distance spotting during wildfires in south-eastern Australia	Biblio	save (3.97 MB)	fire, mitigation, prescribed burning
Fighting fires and fatigue: sleep, physical activity, and physical task performance	Biblio	save (20.46 MB)	fire
RUIM – A fire safety engineering model for rural urban interface firefighter taskforce deployment	Biblio		fire, firefighter, organisational
Threshold Behaviour in Dynamic Fire Propagation Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (1.3 MB)	fire, propagation
Climate Change Significantly Alters Future Wildfire Mitigation Opportunities in Southeastern Australia	Biblio		climate change, fire, prescribed burning
Multi-scaled calibration of high-resolution burnt area and fire severity mapping - workshop report	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, fire impacts, 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
Fire Risk Assessment of Combustible Exterior Cladding Using a Collective Numerical Database	Biblio	save (3.03 MB)	fire, infrastructure, risk management
Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind speed profiles	Biblio	save (988.48 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Climate Change Increases the Potential for Extreme Wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Methods for background temperature estimation in the context of active fire detection	Biblio	save (22.24 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Assessment of potentially toxic metal contamination in the soils of a legacy mine site in Central Victoria, Australia.	Biblio		environments, fire, land management
Disaster landscape attribution: annual report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.22 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Integrating bushfire risk reduction and statutory mechanisms in South Australia	Biblio	save (753.84 KB)	fire, mitigation, modelling
The role of extreme value analysis to enhance defendable space for construction practice and planning in bushfire prone environments - peer viewed	Biblio	save (703.25 KB)	fire, infrastructure, planning
Leaf traits predict global patterns in the structure and flammability of forest litter beds	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, land management