bomb cycloneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

bomb cyclone (複数形 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 かつ 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).

   • 2022 December 23, Jon Henley, Edward Helmore, Maya Yang, “Gigantic US winter storm leaves millions without power and cancels holiday plans”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The winter storm that forecasters dubbed Elliott intensified into a bomb cyclone near the Great Lakes on Friday, bringing high winds and blizzard conditions from the Northern Plains to western and upstate New York, along with life-threatening flooding, flash-freezing and travel chaos as it went.

参考

• bombogenesis
• explosive cyclogenesis
• meteorological bomb
• weather bomb

Further reading

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