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prevailing winds

surface wind that blows predominantly from a particular direction
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prevailing winds

Summary

prevailing winds ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (338 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • prevailing winds's subclass of is recorded as wind[2].
  • prevailing winds's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03c5xf[3].
  • prevailing winds's topic's main category is recorded as Q32779445[4].
  • prevailing winds's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/prevailing-wind[5].
  • prevailing winds's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 94700167[6].
  • prevailing winds's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 156767477[7].
  • prevailing winds's KBpedia ID is recorded as PrevailingWind[8].
  • prevailing winds's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C94700167[9].
  • prevailing winds's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C156767477[10].

Why It Matters

prevailing winds ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (338 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). prevailing winds. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/prevailing-winds
MLA “prevailing winds.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/prevailing-winds.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_prevailing-winds_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{prevailing winds}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/prevailing-winds}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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