About: Operation Popeye   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

It was during the Vietnam War and the government hoped to harness weather to increase rainfall and prevent the Vietnamese from obtaining supplies. They hoped to accomplish this by washing out river crossings and even causing landslides. The government began seeding clouds with silver and lead iodide. The result was a success and they were able to extend the monsoon period, but all the rainfall flooded the Song Con River resulting in the failure of Operation Ivory Coast. Operation Popeye is known as one fo the first examples of attempted weather modification by the government.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Operation Popeye
rdfs:comment
  • It was during the Vietnam War and the government hoped to harness weather to increase rainfall and prevent the Vietnamese from obtaining supplies. They hoped to accomplish this by washing out river crossings and even causing landslides. The government began seeding clouds with silver and lead iodide. The result was a success and they were able to extend the monsoon period, but all the rainfall flooded the Song Con River resulting in the failure of Operation Ivory Coast. Operation Popeye is known as one fo the first examples of attempted weather modification by the government.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
abstract
  • It was during the Vietnam War and the government hoped to harness weather to increase rainfall and prevent the Vietnamese from obtaining supplies. They hoped to accomplish this by washing out river crossings and even causing landslides. The government began seeding clouds with silver and lead iodide. The result was a success and they were able to extend the monsoon period, but all the rainfall flooded the Song Con River resulting in the failure of Operation Ivory Coast. Operation Popeye is known as one fo the first examples of attempted weather modification by the government.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software