maps and information management products, which will across Victoria. directly improve Victoria’s Completion capacity to manage date: August bushfire risk across the 2018 range of prevention, preparedness and response activities. Table 5: Associated fire management, predictive, and behavioural research - current projects Project Description Management Title outcome Weather DELWP has This research research been will enable and supporting to forecast the update Victoria: fire development precipitation climatology of a in the primary precipitation mesoscale gridded analysis model weather (Sch 27) derived fire dataset, and weather to improve a Bushfire & climatology suite of Natural gridded policy and Hazards dataset for operational CRC and Victoria, decisions Monash which serves which use it. University as both input Completion data for date: July 2018 tools such as Phoenix, as well as providing historical baseline weather data to determine if assumptions that go into policy and operations are supported by the climate record, and whether the extent that fire management responses
maps and information products, which will directly improve Victoria’s capacity to manage bushfire risk across the range of prevention, preparedness and response activities. management across Victoria. Completion date: August 2018 Table 5: Associated fire management, predictive, and behavioural research - current projects Project Title Description Management outcome Weather research and forecast Victoria: fire climatology precipitation analysis (Sch 27) Bushfire & Natural Hazards CRC and Monash University DELWP has been supporting the development of a mesoscale model derived fire weather climatology gridded dataset for Victoria, which serves as both input data for tools such as Phoenix, as well as providing historical baseline weather data to determine if assumptions that go into policy and operations are supported by the climate record, and whether the extent that fire management responses This research will enable to update precipitation in the primary gridded weather dataset, and to improve a suite of policy and operational decisions which use it. Completion date: July 2018
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