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  1. The term "bomb cyclone" was first used in a 1980 research paper by MIT meteorologists Fred Sanders and John Gyakum. They coined the term to describe a rapidly intensifying extratropical cyclone, a process also known as "explosive cyclogenesis". The term "bomb" refers to the explosive development of the storm due to a rapid drop in atmospheric pressure
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