The cloud top (or the top of the cloud) is the highest altitude of the visible portion of the cloud. It is traditionally expressed either in metres above the Earth (or planetary) surface, or as the corresponding pressure level in hectopascal (hPa, equivalent to the traditional but now obsolete millibar).
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Famous quotes containing the words cloud and/or top:
“If you wish --
... I’ll be irreproachably tender;
not a man, but—a cloud in trousers!”
—Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)
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—Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)