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altostratus

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altostratus

Summary

altostratus ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (408 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • altostratus is credited with the discovery of Émilien Jean Renou[2].
  • altostratus is a type of stratus[3].
  • altostratus is a type of mid-level cloud[4].
  • altostratus's Commons category is recorded as Altostratus clouds[5].
  • altostratus's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 1877[6].
  • altostratus's official website is recorded as https://cloudatlas.wmo.int/altostratus-as.html[7].
  • altostratus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Altostratus clouds[8].
  • altostratus's Commons gallery is recorded as Altostratus[9].
  • altostratus's facet of is recorded as international cloud classification[10].
  • altostratus's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[11].
  • altostratus's described by source is recorded as Draft History of Qing[12].
  • altostratus's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'As'}[13].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include stratus[3] and mid-level cloud[4].

Why It Matters

altostratus ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (408 views/month).[1] altostratus has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] altostratus is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . International Cloud Atlas. cloudatlas.wmo.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . International Cloud Atlas. cloudatlas.wmo.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Environment ontology id → 01001410
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'be', 'bg', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'csb', 'cy', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P3859]]: 01001410, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/143356007|altostratus cloud (#143356007)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5484|Environment O"
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