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explosive cyclogenesis en · NOUN

Etymology

From explosive (“from being the explosive (rapid) generation of an extratropical cyclonic storm”) + cyclogenesis.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A decline in the barometric pressure of twenty-four millibars over a twenty-four hour period at or north of sixty-degrees latitude.
    • 2000, John R. Gyakum and Richard E. Danielson, Monthly Weather Review, Volume 128, page 851, Analysis of Meteorological Precursors to Ordinary and Explosive Cyclogenesis in the Western North Pacific.
    • 1986, Frederick Sanders, Monthly Weather Review, Volume 114, page 1781, Explosive Cyclogenesis in the West-Central North Atlantic Ocean, 1981–84. Part I: Composite Structure and Mean Behavior.
    • 1985, SJ Colucci. Journal of the atmospheric sciences, Volume 42, number 24, page 2701, Explosive cyclogenesis and large-scale circulation changes: Implications for atmospheric blocking

Forms

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Synonyms

meteorological bomb · bombogenesis · weather bomb

Translations (2)

ja 爆発性低気圧発生 (Translations) · cmn 爆發性旋生 /爆发性旋生 (Translations)