Key topics

fire weather

Fire weather are the conditions which influence fire ignition, behaviour, and suppression.

Item	Type		Key Topics
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
Understanding the impact of climate change on fire weather variables	Project		climate change, fire weather
Pyrocumulonimbus Firepower Threshold: Assessing the atmospheric potential for pyroCb	Biblio		fire weather, modelling, physics
Kangaroo Island Black Summer fire reconstruction	Biblio	save (999.33 KB)	fire impacts, fire weather, remote sensing
Fire coalescence and mass spot fire dynamics - final project report	Biblio	save (5.2 MB)	fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
A lidar-derived fuel map for the ACT	Biblio	save (2.82 MB)	emergency management, fire weather, fuel reduction
Deconstructing factors contributing to the 2018 fire weather in Queensland, Australia	Biblio	save (932.55 KB)	climate change, fire, fire weather
Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact: Annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (2.07 MB)	fire weather, forecasting, severe weather
Investigation of firebrand generation from an experimental fire: development of a reliable data collection methodology	Biblio		fire, fire weather, propagation
Modelling wind direction distributions using a diagnostic model in the context of probabilistic fire spread prediction	Biblio	save (9.25 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
Modelling the dynamic behaviour of junction fires with a coupled fire-atmosphere model	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Victoria fire weather climatology dataset - peer viewed	Biblio	save (921.76 KB)	fire weather
Interactive influence of ENSO and IOD on contiguous heatwaves in Australia	Biblio		fire weather, modelling, physics
Analysis of Variation in Distance, Number, and Distribution of Spotting in Southeast Australian Wildfires	Biblio	save (8.88 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
The role of weather, past fire and topography in crown fire occurrence in eastern Australia	Biblio		fire impacts, fire weather, prescribed burning
Models of buoyant plume rise	Biblio	save (1.3 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Fire coalescence and mass spotfire dynamics	Project	save (0 bytes)	fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
Effects of Oxygen Concentration on Radiation-Aided and Self-sustained Smoldering Combustion of Radiata Pine	Biblio		fire, fire weather, fuel reduction
Derivation of a Bayesian fire spread model using large-scale wildfire observations	Biblio		fire weather, modelling, 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
Modelling the Fire Weather of the Coonabarabran Fire of 13 January 2013	Biblio	save (1 MB)	fire weather
Meteorological drivers of the eastern Victorian Black Summer (2019–2020) fires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, scenario analysis
Fire weather and prototype fire danger ratings for the Gell River fire, Tasmania	Biblio	save (1.88 MB)	fire weather, forecasting, modelling
The bushfire convective plume experiment: mobile radar observations of pyro-convection from the Mt Bolton fire, 2016	Biblio	save (199.8 KB)	fire impacts, fire weather, modelling
Determination of smoldering time and thermal characteristics of firebrands under laboratory conditions	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Impact of Australia's catastrophic 2019/20 bushfire season on communities and environment. Retrospective analysis and current trends	Biblio	save (1.34 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Pyrocumulonimbus forecasting: needs and issues	Biblio	save (1.94 MB)	fire weather, modelling, severe weather
Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling: ACCESS-Fire – annual report 2019-2020	Biblio	save (2.21 MB)	fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
Estimating Fire Background Temperature at a Geostationary Scale—An Evaluation of Contextual Methods for AHI-8	Biblio		fire impacts, fire weather, risk management
A new quantitative smoke forecasting system for Victoria	Biblio	save (911.66 KB)	fire weather, forecasting, modelling
Coupled fire atmosphere modelling annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (467.49 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Long-range fire weather predictions developed and service established as new capability for Australia	Biblio	save (1.55 MB)	capability, fire, fire weather
Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind speed profiles	Biblio	save (1.08 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Large-eddy simulations of pyro-convection and its sensitivity to mositure	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
Spotfire utilisation project: implementation of the VLS filter	Biblio	save (2.93 MB)	fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
Science in operations: QFES response to the 2018 Queensland fires	Biblio	save (686.74 KB)	capability, fire weather, response
Climate Change Increases the Potential for Extreme Wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Natural hazards in Australia: extreme bushfire	Biblio		fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
Extreme weather: improved data products on bushfires, thunderstorms, tropical cyclones and east coast lows	Biblio	save (764.8 KB)	fire weather, multi-hazard, severe weather
Fire coalescence and mass spotfire dynamics - experimentation, modelling and simulation: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (1.91 MB)	fire, fire weather, propagation