Resources: Activities
Fire ignition
What allows ignition to occur?
Natural ignition
What is the distribution of lightning strikes?
Seasonal significance of ignition sources
In which season is each ignition source likely to be most important?
Fire regimes
How do fire regimes vary across regions?
Fire field experiments
How can fire experiments assist researchers?
Humidity & temperature
How does humidity vary diurnally?
Fire weather
How is fire weather measured and how does it relate to fire danger?
When would you burn?
How can fire danger hazard guide managers?
Calculating Fire Danger
Can you work out the fire hazard?
Fire weather in the monsoonal north
How can fire weather affect burning?
Topography & fire behaviour
How does topography influence fire behaviour?
Extreme fire weather conditions
What conditions precipitated some of Australia's most tragic bushfires?
Types of fuel
What types of fuel are there in the tropical savannas?
Pandanus as ladder fuels
How do Pandanus act as ladders?
Identifying fuel types
What type of fuels are most common in different vegetation types?
Fuels & season
How does fuel load vary between the early and late dry season?
Measuring fuel load in the field
What is involved in direct harvesting of fuel?
Vegetation curing
What is vegetation curing?
Fuel curing
How and why measure fuel curing?
NDVI (1)
How does moisture change temporally & spatially?
NDVI (2)
Can NDVI predict fuel curing?
Measuring the rate of spread
What is involved in calculating the rate of spread of a fire?
Ignition type & fire attributes
How does ignition pattern affect fire?
Head and back fires
What are head and back fires?
Char and scorch heights
What can char and scorch heights tell us?
Summarising fire behaviour
How does fire behaviour vary between seasons?
Fire behaviour and fire management
How does fire behaviour affect management?
Head & back fires
When is ignition type important?
