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91社区 Professor helped coin the term 'Bomb Cyclone'
Published: 4 January 2018
91社区 meteorology professor聽John Gyakum, along with the revered late Massachusetts Institute of Technology meteorologist Fred Sanders,聽first coined the term in a paper they published in 1980.聽They used the phrase to describe powerful cyclones that get their energy from rapid drops in pressure caused by hot and cold temperatures colliding.
"If the term itself 鈥� 鈥榖omb鈥� 鈥� helps to spur more constructive research, then I鈥檓 happy."鈥旿ohn Gyakum
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