Discovery Indigenous - Grant ID: IN160100029

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: 30-06-2016

End Date: 31-07-2020

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 |

Other Keywords

Atmospheric Dynamics | Atmospheric Processes and Dynamics | Environmental Engineering Modelling | Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences | Natural Hazards | Natural Hazards in Forest and Woodlands Environments | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience

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