Understanding bombogenesis and how the term originated at MIT.
It came from a paper we published in 1980. The title was “Synoptic-Dynamic Climatology of the ‘Bomb.’ ” I was a graduate student at the time [at MIT], and my adviser, who was the lead author, Frederick Sanders, actually coined the term. He had quite a bit of experience making forecasts for cyclones in the North Atlantic that were developing very rapidly. Oftentimes, we’d even say explosively. Given their explosive development, it was an easy path to take to just call these systems “bombs.”
Read the full story here and related stories:
Bombogenesis? Bomb cyclone? What exactly these terms mean and how they relate to Thursday’s storm
'Bombogenesis' takes aim at U.S. Northeast as snow sweeps South