- Title:
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Fire Behaviour Workshop - Course Notes
- Date:
- September 2007
- Organisations
- Bushfire CRC, Ensis, CSIRO, Scion
- Authors:
- Jim Gould and Miguel Cruz
Overview
Accurate, high-resolution fire behaviour prediction is the key to taking effective management action before and during fires. Fire prediction models need to accurately describe the fire environment and the level of uncertainty in predictions so that fire managers can better understand the consequences of their actions and their interactions with natural events. Reliable predictions of different elements of fire behaviour including rate of spread, intensity, flame characteristics, spotting, fuel consumption and emissions are critical information for decisions about suppression strategies. Over the past 10 years there been many advances in fire behaviour knowledge to provide better prediction systems for eucalypt, exotic pine plantation and shrubland fuel types. This symposium will present the state of knowledge of fire behaviour in Australasian fire behaviour models from the current research findings of Project Vesta, Project FuSE, spot fire modelling, fuel moisture dynamics and fire weather. The symposium will address the development, implementation and evaluation of fire behaviour models with a focus on operational applications.
