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Below is a checklist of weather modification themes on postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.). Catalog numbers, years of issue, and notes on the items featured are given when available. If readers know of additional information or images, please contact the authors using the e-mail addresses at the bottom of this page.
See also the following Contributors to Meteorology involved in weather modification:
| Country | Catalog Number* | Type of Item** | Year of Issue | Weather Modification Theme |
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| Botswana | 394 (Mi393) | 1987 | Lightning prevention (traditional medicine) | |
| Botswana | 395 (Mi394) | 1987 | Rain making (traditional medicine) | |
| Botswana | 393-396 fdc | Two of four stamps on FDC | 1987 | Weather modification (traditional medicine) |
| China (People's Republic) | 1388 (Mi1398) | 1978 | Weather modification by rocket | |
| China (People's Republic) | 1384-1388 fdc | Stamp on FDC | ||
| China (People's Republic) | 3069 (Mi2197) | 2000 | Cloud seeding aircraft for rain enhancement project | |
| China (People's Republic) | 3066-3069 fdc1 | One of four stamps on FDC, also back | ||
| China (People's Republic) | 3066-3069 fdc2 | One of four stamps on FDC (different) | ||
| Italy | None | Postcard | post-WWII | Hail suppression by rocket |
| Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania | 261 (Mi249) | 1973 | Hail suppression by meteorological rocket | |
| Laos | C9 (Mi?) | 1953 | Calling for Rain Buddha: Used in ceremonies at the end of the dry season to invite the rains back to Laos | |
| Laos | C9 proof | Die proof | ||
| Laos | 1227 (Mi1465) | 1995 | Rocket festival: In this festival at the end of the dry season, firing rockets prompts the heavens to bring the rains back to Laos | |
| Laos | 1228 (Mi1466) | |||
| Laos | 1229 (Mi1467) | |||
| Laos | 1230 (Mi1468) | |||
| Laos | 1602 (BL?) | SS1 | 2003 | Calling for Rain Buddha: Used in ceremonies at the end of the dry season to invite the rains back to Laos |
| Liberia | Mi2903 (Mi?) | From MS17 (Mi2893-2909 + label); see also margin detail | 2000 | (Charles) Wilson's cloud chamber1 |
| Liberia | Mi2907 (Mi?) | Photograph from (Charles) Wilson's cloud chamber1 | ||
| Niuafo'ou | 101 (Mi?) | 1988 | Rainmaker Mountain, Samoa | |
| Russia (USSR) | None | Cancel and cachet on postal card | 1984 | Weather modification rockets in launcher |
| Russia (USSR) | None | Cachet on postal card | 1984 | Weather modification rockets in launcher |
| Sierra Leone | 2459 (BL?) | SS1 | 2001 | "Komachi Praying for Rain"; this Japanese woodblock painting recalls a time when the country was suffering from a severe and prolonged drought, in which only Komachi's intercession was able to bring back the rain. |
| Thailand | 1671 (Mi?) | One of MS5 (1673a (1669-1673 + label)) | 1996 | Royal rainmaking project: Airplane seeding clouds |
| Thailand | 1669-1673 fdc | One of five stamps on FDC, also detail on back | ||
| United Nations | 79 fdc | Cachet on FDC | 1960 | Acetone burner |
*Scott catalog number, unless prefixed with Mi or BL for Michel; "i" prefix denotes imperforate version.
**FDC = first day cover; SS# = souvenir sheet, MS# = miniature sheet, where # = number of stamps in sheet, and the numbers in parentheses are the catalog numbers of the stamps in the sheet.
1(Charles) Wilson's cloud chamber was used to investigate certain atmospheric and cloud phenomena. Some of the results of the cloud chamber experiments later found application in the theory of cloud seeding and weather modification.
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