Project: Future Fires

Climatology of overnight fire weather conditions in south-eastern Australia

This project builds on a related project – Overnight fire weather conditions in NSW during Black Summer – to explore spatial and temporal patterns in overnight fire weather conditions in south-eastern Australia. It will help to build up a picture of current conditions and trends, identifying hot spots of high overnight fire danger. The project will also create a baseline of current conditions against which to measure future changes under continued global warming.

Project timeline: 01/2024 – 06/2025

More Projects

View all projects

Identifying and defining landscape dryness thresholds for fires

Landscape Flammability
Understanding how the dryness of the landscape influences the likelihood and nature of fires is critical for risk planning for fire and land managers. Consequently, there has been a large amount of research to develop landscape dryness ...

Developing detailed emission source terms for next-generation wildland fire and smoke modeling tools using improved near-field fire measurements

Fire Behaviour
The primary negative impact from prescribed fires to human populations are the respiratory and visual smoke hazards when it is transported in sufficient quantities and compositions. Therefore, smoke management is paramount to prescribed ...

Future fire regimes and their impact on mammal populations

Ecosystem Interaction, Future Fires
Fire drives patterns in mammal biodiversity across the globe.  However, due to climate change fire regimes are shifting and this impacts species and their populations. It is important we gain a better understanding of how species are affected ...
No results found.
View all projects