bomb cyclone

English

Etymology

From bomb +‎ cyclone, referring to the extreme rapidity of the storm's development.

Noun

bomb cyclone (plural bomb cyclones)

1. (meteorology) A type of extratropical cyclone characterized by high winds, a high level of precipitation, and rapid development.
   • 1992, Peter Jon Pokrandt, A three-dimensional, nonhydrostatic investigation of warm core cyclogenesis at high latitude, University of Wisconsin--Madison, page 1,

     It has been suggested that some east coast bomb cyclones form by this process (Shapiro and Keyser, 1990).

   • c. 1999 Monthly Weather Review, Volume 128, Issues 1-4, American Meteorological Society, page 403,

     In a compositing study of bomb cyclones, Manobianco (1989) found a prominent localized VM upstream from the developing surface cyclone.

   • 2012, Piero Lionello (editor), The Climate of the Mediterranean Region: From the Past to the Future, Elsevier, page 316,

     However, the bomb cyclones’ size and depth are typically larger in the EM^{[Eastern Mediterranean]} than in its western part (Kouroutzoglou et al., 2011).

Translations

Translations

• French: bombe cyclonique
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See also

• bombogenesis
• explosive cyclogenesis
• meteorological bomb
• weather bomb

Further reading

• Explosive cyclogenesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Extratropical cyclone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia