cloudtop

cloudtop

English

Etymology

cloud +‎ top

Noun

cloudtop (plural cloudtops)

1. The topmost layer of cloud.
   • 1932, Robert LeMoyne Barrett, ‎Katharine Ellis Barrett, Cloudtop Mosaics (page 44)

     The rains are only from October to December, and very rarely does the summer cloudtop rise to our level and sweep cool fringes over us, never depositing visible moisture anywhere.

   • 2014, John Westfall, ‎William Sheehan, Celestial Shadows: Eclipses, Transits, and Occultations (page 546)

     A third ring system was added in March 1979 when Voyager-1 flew past Jupiter and imaged the outer edge of a faint, tenuous ring, 57,000 km above the planet's cloudtops.