westerlies

prevailing winds from the west toward the east in the middle latitudes
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westerlies

Summary

westerlies is a wind[1]. westerlies draws 256 Wikipedia views per month (wind category, ranking #4 of 14).[2]

Key Facts

  • westerlies's instance of is recorded as wind[3].
  • westerlies's subclass of is recorded as prevailing winds[4].
  • westerlies's subclass of is recorded as west wind[5].
  • westerlies's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 01181345[6].
  • westerlies's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03c66c[7].
  • westerlies's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature[8].
  • westerlies's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/westerlies[9].
  • westerlies's different from is recorded as Q52731221[10].
  • westerlies's different from is recorded as west wind[11].
  • westerlies's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as westerlies-vents-d-ouest[12].
  • westerlies's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 142756592[13].
  • westerlies's Lex ID is recorded as vestenvindsbæltet[14].
  • westerlies's KBpedia ID is recorded as Westerly[15].
  • westerlies's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C142756592[16].
  • westerlies's A Dictionary of Geography entry ID is recorded as 3308[17].

Why It Matters

westerlies draws 256 Wikipedia views per month (wind category, ranking #4 of 14).[2] westerlies has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] westerlies is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_westerlies_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{westerlies}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/westerlies}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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