{"id":462,"date":"2022-01-28T13:43:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T13:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/?p=462"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:48:21","slug":"conversation-article-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/2022\/01\/28\/conversation-article-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation Article Feature: What is a Bomb Cyclone?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conversation Article Feature: What is a Bomb Cyclone?<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/files\/2022\/01\/depression-g62589e5de_1920-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-465\" style=\"width:415px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/files\/2022\/01\/depression-g62589e5de_1920-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/files\/2022\/01\/depression-g62589e5de_1920-768x666.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/files\/2022\/01\/depression-g62589e5de_1920-1024x887.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/files\/2022\/01\/depression-g62589e5de_1920-200x173.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/files\/2022\/01\/depression-g62589e5de_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p><em>A &#8216;polar low&#8217; approaching Ireland. Image from Pixabay.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>While mid-latitude storms tend to get less attention than tropical cyclones, the impacts of an intense mid-latitude storm such as this can be extreme &#8211; particularly in terms of snowfall, winds, and coastal erosion\/flooding. See the article for more on how intense &#8216;bomb&#8217; cyclones develop: <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-is-a-bomb-cyclone-an-atmospheric-scientist-explains-175825\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-is-a-bomb-cyclone-an-atmospheric-scientist-explains-175825<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>For research connected to these events, see my CV and research updates on this website!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":991,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"off","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/991"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}