Search Results - "Filkov, Alexander"
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Fine fuel changes due to timber harvesting and frequent prescribed burning in eucalypt forests of southeastern Australia
Published in Forest ecology and management (15-09-2022)“…•Harvested stands had 30% less leaves and fine twigs in the litter up to 10 years post-fire.•Harvested stands had 24% more green understorey fuel up to…”
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Impact of Australia's catastrophic 2019/20 bushfire season on communities and environment. Retrospective analysis and current trends
Published in Journal of Safety Science and Resilience = An quan ke xue yu ren xing (Ying wen) (01-09-2020)“…2019/20 Australia's bushfire season (Black Summer fires) occurred during a period of record breaking temperatures and extremely low rainfall. To understand the…”
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Quantifying Firebrand and Radiative Heat Flux Risk on Structures in Mallee/Mulga-Dominated Wildland–Urban Interface: A Physics-Based Approach
Published in Fire (Basel, Switzerland) (01-12-2023)“…Fire spread in the Wildland–Urban Interface (WUI) can occur due to direct flame contact, convection, radiation, firebrand attack, or their combinations. Out of…”
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Fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival
Published in Fire ecology (01-12-2024)“…Background In fire-prone environments, some species store their seeds in canopy cones (serotiny), which provides seeds protection from the passage of fire…”
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Improving Fire Behaviour Data Obtained from Wildfires
Published in Forests (09-02-2018)“…Organisations that manage wildfires are expected to deliver scientifically defensible decisions. However, the limited availability of high quality data…”
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Energetic potential and kinetic behavior of peats
Published in Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry (01-09-2014)“…Investigations were conducted with the aim to improve the energetic characterization of peats with different geological origin, hydrology, and botanical…”
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Frequency of Dynamic Fire Behaviours in Australian Forest Environments
Published in Fire (Basel, Switzerland) (01-03-2020)“…Wildfires can result in significant social, environmental and economic losses. Fires in which dynamic fire behaviours (DFBs) occur contribute…”
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Utilization of remote sensing techniques for the quantification of fire behavior in two pine stands
Published in Fire safety journal (01-07-2017)“…Quantification of field-scale fire behavior is necessary to improve the current scientific understanding of wildland fires and to develop and test relevant,…”
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Determination of Firebrand Characteristics Using Thermal Videos
Published in Fire (Basel, Switzerland) (01-12-2020)“…Burning firebrands generated by wildland or prescribed fires may lead to the initiation of spot fires and fire escapes. At the present time, there are no…”
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Quantifying Litter Bed Ignitability: Comparison of a Laboratory and Field Method
Published in Fire (Basel, Switzerland) (01-01-2023)“…Understanding the conditions when litter beds will ignite from firebrands is critical for predicting spot fire occurrence. Such research is either field- or…”
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Kinetic investigation on the smouldering combustion of boreal peat
Published in Fuel (Guildford) (01-03-2012)“…► TGA experiments were performed on various kinds of boreal peats. ► Correlation between thermal behaviour and botanical/chemical composition was established…”
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Comparative Study To Evaluate the Drying Kinetics of Boreal Peats from Micro to Macro Scales
Published in Energy & fuels (19-01-2012)“…Peat is an organic and flammable material used for energy generation and involved in accidental wildfires. Smoldering combustion is governed by heterogeneous…”
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Particle Tracking and Detection Software for Firebrands Characterization in Wildland Fires
Published in Fire technology (01-05-2019)“…Detection and analysis of the objects in a frame or a sequence of frames (video) can be used to solve a number of problems in various fields, including the…”
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The effects of junction fire development on thermal behaviour at the field scale
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Effect of bark properties on the cambium cell viability of Eucalyptus species under low radiative heat exposure
Published in Forest ecology and management (01-10-2022)“…•The radiant energy required to raise the cambium to 60 °C was directly proportional to the moisture content and the specific heat capacity of the…”
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Determination of smoldering time and thermal characteristics of firebrands under laboratory conditions
Published in Fire safety journal (01-07-2017)“…The laboratory experiment was conducted to simulate the transfer of smouldering particles produced in forest wildfires by a heated gas flow. The pine bark…”
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Ignition and combustion behavior of pressure treated wood and wood-plastic composite exposed to glowing firebrand piles: Impact of air flow velocity, firebrand coverage density and pile orientation
Published in Fire safety journal (01-07-2024)“…Pressure treated wood (PTW) and wood-plastic composite (Trex®) were exposed to glowing firebrand piles in a bench-scale wind tunnel. The air flow velocity was…”
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Investigation of firebrand generation from an experimental fire: Development of a reliable data collection methodology
Published in Fire safety journal (01-07-2017)“…An experimental approach has been developed to quantify the characteristics and flux of firebrands during a management-scale wildfire in a pine-dominated…”
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Investigation of firebrand production during prescribed fires conducted in a pine forest
Published in Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (2017)“…This paper represents a study on the characterization of firebrand production which was carried out, using experimental fires conducted as prescribed fires in…”
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Exploring the key drivers of forest flammability in wet eucalypt forests using expert-derived conceptual models
Published in Landscape ecology (01-08-2020)“…Context Fire behaviour research has largely focused on dry ecosystems that burn frequently, with far less attention on wetter forests. Yet, the impacts of fire…”
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