ATMOSPHERE TO BIOSPHERE:
Incoming cooler air masses and/or ones that are more humid can diminish impact of 'hot spots' in burned over areas.

Blackened areas absorb more energy from sun causing higher ground temperatures than usual. With soil moisture extremely low, surviving seeds of all types plus wind blown seeds and spores must rely on rain to start.

BIOSPHERE TO HYDROSPHERE:
Destruction of stream-side habitat (and cover) can raise water temperatures.

HYDROSPHERE TO BIOSPHERE:
Any heavy rains likely to increase pollutants/debris brought to streams. Pollution by particulates can injure fish by clogging gills.

LITHOSPHERE TO ATMOSPHERE:
Blackened areas can absorb heat faster increasing rate of convection in cells. May move masses through a burned area quicker and/or cause moist air to move vertically faster increasing rain further downwind.

ATMOSPHERE TO LITHOSPHERE:
Any heavy rains are likely to result in much higher runoff than usual.

EVENT TO ATMOSPHERE:
Flaming embers carried by winds to create new fires, jump firelines.
Air masses moving in are 'dried' further by fires.
Smoke and particulates put into air carry downwind for hundreds and hundreds of miles.

ATMOSPHERE TO EVENT:
Intense updrafts from burning trees draws in oxygen at base of flames causing an increase in wind velocity.

EVENT TO BIOSPHERE:
Surface habitat severely altered in some areas. Slow moving animal life typically destroyed in fire areas; some larger, more mobil animals trapped by fire.
Plant litter on ground burned off.
After fire: Snags created for raptors and owls to perch.
Expect an increase in wood boring and eating insects - which will provide food for next year's migrating birds
Some animals die due to exposure and/or difficulty in finding grazing.
Lodgepole pine cones on ground opened by fire, seeds exposed.

EVENT TO HYDROSPHERE:
Soil moisture removed to some depths in fire scarred areas.
Some particulates from fire land in streams.
Little impact of fire on underground 'plumbing' system of hot springs and geysers.

EVENT TO LITHOSPHERE:
Soil has humus baked out of it in places, to varying depths depending on intensity of fire at a place. Some fusing of soil mineral grains possible again depending on intensity and duration of fire at a place.



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