Fire case studies

This project will deliver two case studies of the New South Wales Lake Conjola/Currowan fire and Wooroloo fire in Western Australia to explore the meteorological conditions that led to extreme fire behaviour. This detailed analysis, which isn’t possible in real time during a bushfire, will identify learnings to enable fire agencies to prepare and respond to future bushfires, as well as improve future study methodologies. They will also deliver learnings to the communities affected and identify inputs to development of science-based policy.

Through the conduction of these two case studies, the project team will also deliver a design framework detailing optimal case study delivery methodology and will design and develop a streamlined model-run and data visualisation process for Australia's high-resolution ACCESS (and ACCESS-Fire) numerical weather prediction model.