Key topics

severe weather

Severe weather refers to any dangerous meteorological phenomena with the potential to cause damage, serious social disruption, or loss of human life.

Item	Type		Key Topics
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
Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (816.16 KB)	communities, forecasting, severe weather
Intensifying Australian heatwave trends and their sensitivity to observational data	Biblio	save (1.17 MB)	climate change, resilience, severe weather
Developing better predictions for extreme water levels: web user guide	Biblio	save (2.46 MB)	coastal, modelling, severe weather
An analysis of human fatalities from cyclones, earthquakes and severe storms in Australia	Biblio	save (2.03 MB)	decision making, multi-hazard, severe weather
Rapid response report: study of heatwave impacts on residents and businesses in western Sydney	Biblio	save (1005.86 KB)	recovery, resilience, severe weather
Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (777.68 KB)	fire severity, modelling, severe weather
Predicting continental shelf waves in Australia	Biblio	save (4.77 MB)	coastal, severe weather, storm surge
Wind loads on contemporary Australian housing	Biblio		cyclone, engineering, severe weather
Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events: Annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (2.61 MB)	cyclone, engineering, severe weather
Internal pressures in a full-scale test enclosure with windward wall openings	Biblio		fire severity, severe weather
The structural response and progressive failure of batten to rafter connections under wind loads	Biblio	save (7.24 MB)	engineering, severe weather
Load sharing between batten to rafter connections under wind loading	Biblio		cyclone, engineering, severe weather
NSW March 2021 floods - data collection	Project		flood, infrastructure, severe 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
Analysis of rapid damage assessment data following severe windstorm events	Biblio	save (2.29 MB)	cyclone, engineering, severe weather
Time and space scales in the tropical cyclone boundary layer, and the location of the eyewall updraft	Biblio		cyclone, forecasting, severe weather
Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact – final project report	Biblio	save (15.84 MB)	communities, fire weather, severe weather
Exploring the circumstances surrounding flood fatalities in Australia—1900–2015 and the implications for policy and practice	Biblio		flood, policy, severe weather
Impact-Based Forecasting for the Coastal Zone: East Coast Lows- Annual Report 2017/2018	Biblio	save (2.74 MB)	severe weather
Community benefits of roof upgrades	Biblio	save (8.24 MB)	cyclone, emergency management, severe weather
Thermodynamic considerations of pyrocumulus formation	Biblio	save (1.32 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
Managing Severe Weather - Progress and Opportunities Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (2.16 MB)	fire weather, severe weather
Study of heatwave impacts on residents and businesses in western Sydney - 2017	Project		communities, response, severe weather
A vulnerability assessment tool for residential structures and extreme wind events	Biblio	save (567.84 KB)	cyclone, engineering, severe weather
The effects of turbulent plume dynamics on long-range spotting	Biblio	save (460.39 KB)	fire severity, forecasting, severe weather
The boundary layer dynamics of tropical cyclone rainbands	Biblio		cyclone, forecasting, severe weather
A characterisation of synoptic weather features often associated with extreme events in southeast Australia: Stage 1 – common features of recent events	Biblio	save (21.94 MB)	emergency management, fire weather, severe weather
Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact: midterm report 2014-17	Biblio	save (14.37 MB)	fire weather, forecasting, severe weather
Improved treatment of non-stationary conditions and uncertainties in probabilistic models of storm wave climate	Biblio		coastal, severe weather, storm surge
Crowdsourcing Methods for Data Collection in Geophysics: State of the Art, Issues, and Future Directions	Biblio	save (3.66 MB)	multi-hazard, optimisation, severe 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
Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves through the improvements of land dryness measures and forecasts	Biblio	save (2 MB)	forecasting, mitigation, severe weather
Homelessness and severe storms: a case study of the June 2016 East Coast Low	Project		communities, flood, severe weather
NSW Mid North Coast flood impact research	Biblio	save (2.42 MB)	flood, infrastructure, severe weather
Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling project: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (806.63 KB)	fire weather, modelling, severe weather
Developing better predictions for extreme water levels: Final data report	Biblio	save (4.24 MB)	coastal, modelling, severe weather
National Fire Danger Rating System Probabalistic Framework: year two report	Biblio	save (3.41 MB)	fire weather, severe weather
Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (1.13 MB)	cyclone, resilience, severe weather
Investigating a wind tunnel method for determining wind-induced loads on roofing tiles	Biblio		cyclone, engineering, severe weather