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
Investigation of spotting and intrinsic fire dynamics using a coupled atmosphere-fire modelling framework	Biblio	save (10.92 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Modelling of radiant heat flux and rate of spread of wildfire within the urban environment	Biblio	save (5.16 MB)	fire, fire impacts, propagation
Fire spread prediction across fuel types	Project		fire, modelling, propagation
What are the safety implications of dynamic fire behaviours?	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Quantification of inter-regional differences in risk mitigation from prescribed burning across multiple management values	Biblio		climate change, fire, risk management
Probability of fire ignition and escalation	Project		fire, fuel reduction
Controlled burn and immediate mobilization of potentially toxic elements in soil, from a legacy mine site in Central Victoria, Australia	Biblio		fire, prescribed burning
Parenting after a disaster - experiences since Black Saturday	Project		child-centred, fire, recovery
Exploring the key drivers of forest flammability in wet eucalypt forests using expert-derived conceptual models	Biblio	save (1.48 MB)	fire, fire impacts, land management
Firefighter tenability and its influence on wildfire suppression	Biblio		capability, fire, firefighter
Large-eddy simulation of neutral atmospheric surface layer flow over heterogeneous tree canopies	Biblio	save (1.28 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Retrieval of forest fuel moisture content using a coupled radiative transfer model	Biblio		environments, fire, modelling
Fire and heavy metals: when wild and controlled fires transform un-rehabilitated mining waste	Biblio	save (10.75 MB)	fire, fire impacts, land management
Improvement of drag model for non-burning firebrand transport in Fire Dynamics Simulator	Biblio		fire, modelling
Pyrocumulonimbus: A Literature Review	Biblio	save (694.88 KB)	fire, modelling
Advances in active fire detection using a multi-temporal method for next-generation geostationary satellite data	Biblio		fire, remote sensing, response
Investigation of firebrand generation from an experimental fire: development of a reliable data collection methodology	Biblio		fire, fire weather, propagation
Examining bushfire policy in action: Preparedness and behaviour in the 2009 Black Saturday fires	Biblio	save (438.46 KB), save (513.82 KB)	communities, fire, policy
A multilevel approach to fire severity using remote sensing, environmental factors and plant ecology	Project		fire, fire impacts, land management
Dynamics of litterfall and fine fuels after fire in sclerophyll forests and woodlands	Project		environments, fire, fire impacts
Modeling Vorticity-Driven Wildfire Behavior Using Near-Field Techniques	Biblio	save (2.97 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
The Unquantified Risk of Post-Fire Metal Concentration in Soil: a Review	Biblio		environments, fire, soil moisture
Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves through the improvements of land dryness measures and forecasts: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.24 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
Development of seasonal fire prediction tools	Project		fire, fire severity, fire weather
A bushfire evacuation planning service utilising multiple simulation systems - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (292.86 KB)	fire, planning
A Method for Validating the Structural Completeness of Understory Vegetation Models Captured with 3D Remote Sensing	Biblio	save (3.65 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Predicting fire danger ratings from physical measures of fire behaviour	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Sensitivity of the Empirical Mode Decomposition and its application to environmental data	Project		fire
Continental-scale prediction of live fuel moisture content using soil moisture information	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, land management
Bushfire spatial data models and ignition data	Project		fire, modelling
A Statistical Approach to Understanding Canopy Winds over Complex Terrain	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Assessment framework for the evaluation of wildfire risk reduction strategies	Project		economics, fire
Risks and opportunities for sustainable savanna fire management	Biblio	save (2.07 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
Quantifying dynamic fire behaviour phenomena using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle technology	Biblio	save (2.14 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
The Australian Flammability Monitoring System	Biblio	save (805.45 KB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
Predicting merging fire behaviour in Planned Burning	Biblio		fire, fire severity, remote sensing
A fuel moisture content and flammability monitoring methodology for continental Australia based on optical remote sensing	Biblio		emergency management, fire, savanna grasslands
Understanding Wildfire Patterns in the South-Eastern Australia	Biblio	save (6 MB)	fire, modelling, risk management
Walking together: a decolonising experiment in bushfire management on Dja Dja Wurrung country	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Deriving comprehensive forest structure information from mobile laser scanning observations using automated point cloud classification	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing