explosive cyclogenesis
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English
Etymology
From explosive + cyclogenesis. From being the explosive (-ly rapid) generation of an extratropical cyclonic storm.
Noun
explosive cyclogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural explosive cyclogeneses)
- (meteorology) A decline in the barometric pressure of twenty-four millibars over a twenty-four hour period at or north of sixty-degrees latitude.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
Synonyms
- (meteorology): bombogenesis, meteorological bomb, weather bomb