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Presentations & Posters

document Fire weather history of southeastern Australia
Chris Lucas
BCRC/AFAC 2005 poster [pdf 1.1 Mb]

document Chris Lucas, Bureau of Meteorology
Development of seasonal fire weather outlook across Australia. [pdf 342.1 kb]

document Tom Keenan, Mills, Goldammer, de Groot, Lynham, Brady, Justice, Csiszar, O’Loughlin.
A proposed global early warning system for wildland fire. [pdf 87.3 kb]

document Chris Lucas
An Australian fire weather data set: 1957 - 2003. [pdf 72.0 kb]

document Chris Lucas and Klara Finkele
Comparison of Forest Fire Danger Index from grided and station based data. [pdf 69.6 kb]

document Graham Mills, Bureau of Meteorology
Upper level dry air and reduced surface humidity. [pdf 61.2 kb]

document Klara Finkele and Graham Mills
Spatially distributed fire warnings thresholds and its application to Canadian Fire Weather Index and FFDI. [pdf 111.9 kb]

document Xinmei Huang and Graham Mills
PAWS at Wilsons Promontory in April 2005: wind regimes and changes in complex terrain. [pdf 131.6 kb]

document Chris Lucas, Bureau of Meteorology
Understanding the interactions of climate and bushfire in Australia. [pdf 631.2 kb]

document Graham Mills
In good time - fire predicting and 'nowcasting'. [pdf 840.3 kb]

document Andrew Dowdy
A comparison of the McArthur forest fire danger index and the Canadian forest fire weather index [pdf 99.4 kb]

document Yimin Ma
Verification of mesoscale NWP forecasts of abrupt wind changes [pdf 346.9 kb]

document Impact of Diurnal Variation of Plume Height on Smoke Dispersion Forecasts
Alan Wain. Presentation at Bushfire CRC conference, Perth 2004. [pdf 1.2 Mb]

document Program A - Andrew Dowdy.pdf
Lightning-fires and associated atmospheric coditions [pdf 128.0 kb]

document Program A - Graham Mills.pdf
Atmospheric Stability Environments and Fire Weather (1) - An Extended Haines Index [pdf 204.6 kb]

document Program A - Andrew Dowdy1.pdf
Online forecasts throughout Australia of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System [pdf 48.0 kb]

document Program A - Graham Mills2.pdf
Atmospheric Stability Environments and Fire Weather (2) - A Case Study of the Hovea [pdf 176.1 kb]

document Program A - Paul Fox Hughes.pdf
What do high resolutions observations tell us about the frequency of fire weather events? [pdf 452.0 kb]

A high-resolution historical fire climate dataset for Victoria
T. Brown, G. Mills, T. Ghidey, H. Reinbold

Abrupt lowering of near surface relative humidity during extreme fire events
G.A.Mills

Conference Papers - External Links

Managing smoke from wildfires and prescribed burning in southern Australia
Alan Wain, Graham Mills, Lachlan McCaw and Timothy Brown

Fire climates of Australia, past, present and future
C.Lucas

Lower atmospheric drying, stability, and increased wildfire activity
G.A.Mills

Climate change and bushfire weather in southeast Australia
C.Lucas

Research Reports - External Links

Climate change impacts on fire-weather in southeast Australia
K.Hennessy, C.Lucas, N.Nicholls, J.Bathols, R.Suppiah and J.Ricketts

An examination of dewpoint biases introduced by different instrumentation
C.Lucas

Classifying objectively identified wind changes using synoptic pressure cycles.
Huang Xin-Mei and Graham Mills

A fire danger climatology for Tasmania
Paul Fox - Hughes

Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Extreme Fire Weather in Southeast Australia
Hasson, A.E.A., G.A. Mills, B. Timbal, and K. Walsh

Australian fire weather as represented by the McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index and the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index.
Andrew Dowdy, Klara Finkele, Graham A. Mills and Bill de Groot

Bushfire Weather in Southeast Australia: Recent Trends and Projected Climate Change Impacts
C.Lucas, K.Hennessey, G.Mills and J.Bathols

National daily gridded soil moisture deficit and drought factors for use in prediction of forest fire danger index in Australia
K.Finkele, G.A.Mills, G.Beard, and D.Jones

Documents & Reports

document Cold-frontal bushfire winds and computer forecast models
Issue 54: This research focused on understanding the physical processes that cause cold-frontal wind changes, and how to verify forecasts from computer forecast models. [pdf 738.6 kb]

document Seasonal bushfire outlook - National 2008-9
Issue 24 - Australian fire season outlook 2008-9: summary. [pdf 190.1 kb]

document Seasonal bushfire assessment 2007- 2008
Issue 14 - Australian fire season outlook for 2007-8: summary [pdf 366.1 kb]

document Bushfire weather: trends and climate change impacts
Bushfire weather in SE Australia: Recent trends and projected climate change impacts - consultancy report prepared for the Climate Institute September 2007. Reproduced with permission. [pdf 1.1 Mb]

document Seasonal bushfire assessment 2006 - 2007
Issue 5 - Australian fire season outlook for 2006-07: summary [pdf 176.1 kb]

document Focus on fire spread simulator
Update 7 - Fire spread simulation models [pdf 204.5 kb]

document Dry slots fan the flames
Update 2 - Research has found a link between dry air at high altitudes and bushfires on the ground. [pdf 153.6 kb]

Journal Papers - External Links

Meteorological overview and verification of HYSPLIT and AAQFS dust forecasts for the dust storm of 22-24 October 2002.
A.G.Wain, S.Lee, G.A.Mills, G.D.Hess, M.E.Cope, and N.Tindale

Interannual variations of area burnt in Tasmanian bushfires: relationships with climate and predictability
N.Nicholls and C.Lucas

The Winchelsea Convergence - using radar and mesoscale NWP to diagnose cool change structure.
G.A.Mills and E. Morgan

Objective identification of wind change timing from single station observations Part 1: methodology and comparison with subjective timings.
Huang, X., and G.A.Mills

Objective identification of wind change timing from single station observations Part 2: towards the concept of a wind change climatology.
Huang, X., and G.A.Mills

National gridded drought factors and comparison of two soil moisture deficit formulations used in the rediction of forest fire danger index in Australia
K. Finkele, G.A. Mills, G. Beard, and D.A. Jones

On easterly changes over elevated terrain in Australia's southeast
G.A.Mills

Linking landscape fires and local meteorology - a short review
Rodney O. Weber and John W. Dold

Abrupt surface drying and fire weather Part 1: Overview and case study of the South Australian fires of 11 January 2005.
Graham A Mills

Abrupt surface drying and fire weather Part 2: a preliminary synoptic climatology in the forested areas ofsouthern Australia
Graham A Mills

A re-examination of the synoptic and mesoscale meteorology of Ash Wednesday 1983
Graham Mills

Assessing the impact of climate change on extreme fire weather events over southeastern Australia
A.E.A. Hasson, G.A.Mills, B.Timbal, and K.Walsh

On the subsynoptic scale meteorology of two extreme fire weather days during the eastern Australian fires of January 2003
G.A.Mills

Article

Read an article on this research by Graham Mills, "Changes of wind and fire," first published in the Winter 2009 issue of Fire Australia magazine, now online as one of many Bushfire CRC News Features.