Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/IN160100029
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Understanding the role of deep flaming in violent pyroconvective events. This project aims to improve the prediction of firestorms by combining state-of-the-art knowledge of dynamic bushfire behaviour with atmospheric models to provide a comprehensive understanding of how the heat and moisture released by a bushfire interacts with ambient atmospheric instability to produce extreme fire events. Firestorms represent the most extreme and catastrophic phase of development of a bushfire. They often cause broad-scale loss of property, environmental damage and human fatalities. Firestorms cannot be suppressed, and so accurate and timely warnings of their occurrence, combined with appropriate community responses, are the only way of mitigating their effects. Better understanding of extreme fire processes may improve mitigation planning, community safety, environmental outcomes and emergency response measures.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 06-2016
End Date: 07-2020
Funding Scheme: Discovery Indigenous
Funding Amount: $404,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Natural Hazards | Atmospheric Dynamics | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience | Environmental Engineering Modelling
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences | Atmospheric Processes and Dynamics | Natural Hazards in Forest and Woodlands Environments |
