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bomb cyclone

noun

Etymology

From bomb (“referring to the extreme rapidity of the storm's development”) + cyclone.

Definitions

  1. A type of extratropical cyclone characterized by high winds, a high level of…

    A type of extratropical cyclone characterized by high winds, a high level of precipitation, and rapid development.

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

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