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Recognising the Ancient Skill of Cultural Burning
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Bowman, D and Lehman, G, Recognising the Ancient Skill of Cultural Burning, Continent Aflame: Responses to an Australian Catastrophe, Palaver, P Anderson, S Gardner, P James and P Komesaroff (ed), Australia, pp. 28-31. ISBN 978-0648855101 (2020) [Research Book Chapter]
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Copyright 2020 Palaver
Abstract
The bushfire crisis that occurred in southern NSW and eastern Victoria in the summer of 2019-2020 was completely unprecedented. In a few days in early January we saw a sequence of events that were truly extraordinary: clusters of fire thunderstorms. Prior to this time, pyro-cumulonimbus (pyroCb) events were quite rare.1 There had, for example, only ever been one previous fire thunderstorm in Tasmania that we know of - in 2013.2 When a pyroCb event occurs the weather, the fire, the atmosphere and the land all become coupled and the situation goes completely out of control - just like in an atomic explosion.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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| Keywords: | fire, Australia, 2019-2020 |
| Research Division: | Indigenous Studies |
| Research Group: | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, society and community |
| Research Field: | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sociology |
| Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
| Objective Group: | Understanding past societies |
| Objective Field: | Understanding Australia's past |
| UTAS Author: | Bowman, D (Professor David Bowman) |
| UTAS Author: | Lehman, G (Dr Greg Lehman) |
| ID Code: | 145762 |
| Year Published: | 2020 |
| Deposited By: | Aboriginal Engagement |
| Deposited On: | 2021-08-05 |
| Last Modified: | 2021-09-24 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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