Understanding the Origin and Development of Extreme and Mega Bushfires

极端火灾和特大火灾会对财产和基础设施造成重大损害，并与巨额灭火费用有关。这些事件形成时，单独的火灾合并。它们在最近几个季节的增加突出了开发工具和技术的重要性，这些工具和技术可以更好地预测极端事件，以帮助火灾应对并为提高抗灾能力的战略提供信息。该项目将火灾现场实验与计算机建模相结合，以确定导致极端火灾发展的因素，并开发新的知识和模型。这使得能够更好地预测活跃的火灾，加强火灾管理人员的知识基础，以作出关键决策，并改善风险建模和火灾易发社区的减灾规划。

Extreme and megafires result in significant damage to property and infrastructure and are associated with large suppression costs. These events form when separate fires Merge. Their increase occurrence in recent seasons highlights the importance of developing tools and technologies that better predict extreme events to aid fire response and inform strategies for greater resilience. This project combines fire field experiments with computer modelling to determine factors driving extreme fire development, and develop new knowledge and models. These enable better prediction of active fires, enhance the knowledge base of fire managers for critical decision making and to improve risk modelling and mitigation planning for fire-prone communities.