Proceedings of the third Australian fire weather conference.

SESSION 1 : Changing requirements for fire weather services. 1. Fire weather requirements of government agencies responsible for the management of forested public lands by Ross Penny; 2. Fire weather services - the rural fire authorities view by Tony Crichton; 3. Data requirements for fire weather services by David Griffiths. SESSION 2 : Fire danger indices and models. 4. Background to fire behaviour models by David Packham; 5. Where can physical fire models lead? by R. O. Weber. SESSION 3 : Forecasting fire weather paramenters. 6. The application of information technology to fire weather forecasting by Peter Gigliotti; 7. ENSO and summer fire danger in Victoria, Australia by H. Stern and M. Williams. SESSION 4 : Additional observations. 8. Cold front reconnaissance by David Packham; 9. Additional observations for fire weather purposes by C. Pierrehumbert. SESSION 5 : Special fire weather issues. 10. Fire weather in relation to tropical cyclones over southwest western Australia by B. N. Hanstrum; 11. Diurnal moisture content by Neil R. Viney; 12. Application of meso-scale numerical weather prediction models to fire weather forecasting by A. Watson. SESSION 6 : Fuel states. 13. Correction of vegetation indices derived from NOAA/AVHRR for their dependance on the angles of illumination and view by R. M. Mitchell; 14. The dedicated fire weather network by G. K. Sorrell; 15. Which drought next? by A. B. Mount; 16. The value of drought index in the Country Fire Authority by David W. Jordan. SESSION 7 : Fire weather management and education. 17. Strategies for improving fire management in Australia : what ranking for improving fire weather forecasting by Chris Trevitt; 18. The application of remote sensing to the assessment of grassland moistur and biomass in Tasmania - a preliminary report by Mark Chladil; 19. MATHEW - a three dimensional wind field model by Kathryn Saltmarsh. SESSION 8 : Bureau of Meteorology reports. 20. U. S. National Weather Service, Fourth fire weather forecaster training course by Peter Gigliotti; 21. The 10th conference on fire and forest meteorology, Ottawa, April 17-21, 1989 by David Packham. SESSION 9 : Bureau of Meteorology Regional Research Reports. 22. Tasmania by Lawrie Marsh; 23. South Australia by Andrew Watson; 24. Queensland by Jim Davidson; 25. New South Wales by David Griffith; 26. Northern Territory by Jon Oill; 27. Severe weather program office by David Packham