cloud seeding

form of weather modification
Thing process Q217418
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cloud seeding

Summary

cloud seeding is a process[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of process entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,102 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • cloud seeding is credited with the discovery of Vincent Schaefer[3].
  • cloud seeding's instance of is recorded as process[4].
  • cloud seeding's subclass of is recorded as weather modification[5].
  • cloud seeding's subclass of is recorded as Rainmaking[6].
  • cloud seeding's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00574791[7].
  • cloud seeding's Commons category is recorded as Cloud seeding[8].
  • +1946-11-13T00:00:00Z marks the founding of cloud seeding[9].
  • cloud seeding's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/029vpd[10].
  • cloud seeding's product or material produced is recorded as rain[11].
  • cloud seeding's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0236863[12].
  • cloud seeding's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/cloud-seeding[13].
  • cloud seeding's immediate cause of is recorded as nucleation[14].
  • cloud seeding's BBC Things ID is recorded as a90033c1-7f9a-4b54-884f-611e1d46a34f[15].
  • cloud seeding's Quora topic ID is recorded as Cloud-Seeding-1[16].
  • cloud seeding's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19567895[17].
  • cloud seeding's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as cloud-seeding[18].
  • cloud seeding's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 178983516[19].
  • cloud seeding's Golden ID is recorded as Cloud_seeding-EYKY4[20].
  • cloud seeding's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C178983516[21].
  • cloud seeding's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as pluja-artificial[22].

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Works and Contributions

cloud seeding is credited with the discovery of Vincent Schaefer[3].

Why It Matters

cloud seeding ranks in the top 1% of process entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,102 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . golden.com. Retrieved . golden.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). cloud seeding. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/cloud-seeding
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_cloud-seeding_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{cloud seeding}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/cloud-seeding}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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