Scientific modelling used to predict how bushfires will behave is "not coping" with the current fire situation in south-eastern Australia because the fires are so big, an incident controller says. As ...

For example, a fire modelling programme run different parts of the modelling process in parallel on a number of computers connected to the Grid. The beauty of this approach is that the computers used ...

Lives are at risk because of the way forest litter is estimated, a researcher says. But among some colleagues that’s a controversial view When it comes to what we know about bushfire behaviour, big ...

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DISARM is the fire-modelling system giving southern European nations a fighting chance against blazes like the one that caused the Mati tragedy in Greece two years ago. Summer in Greece can be a ...