What does TOP stand for?

Cloud Top (At .... Feet)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The AIRS image showed that Phyan still had cold cloud tops as cold as -27F and was dumping moderate rainfall over Lake Manasarovar and Raksas Tal in Tibet.

Cyclone Phyan broke 43-year record when it made landfall in India

CloudSat also showed some high, strong thunderstorm cloud tops over 14 kilometers (almost 9 miles) high.

United States : Aqua Satellite Eyes Lupit And 23W In Western Pacific

If you have a bullish crossover (Tenkan crosses the Kijun from underneath) and the Chikou Span is above the cloud top, then the signal strength increases.

Ichimoku

Scientists have found gigantic lightning jets that shoot upward from cloud tops to 60 miles high in the upper atmosphere--that's five times longer than normal downward-flowing bolts.

Lightning bolts miles in the sky

An infrared image is a picture of the cloud top or earth's surface temperature: the colder, that is, higher, cloud tops appear whiter.

Providing weather satellite images to a classroom using the World ...

Like an umbrella, the high-pressure zone protected the hurricane's cloud tops from crosswinds.

Debby kept hurricane watchers waiting, watching and guessing

In addition, Koch said moisture in clouds can distort the beam and that's why the 747 has to fly at cloud top, or roughly 40,000 feet.

BASE TO HOST TESTS OF AIRBORNE LASER

The ITT-built GOES imager and sounder instruments provide images and data about atmospheric temperature, moisture levels, surface and cloud top temperatures and many other critical meteorological measurements that will be used to improve short-term weather forecasts.

ITT Provides Main Sensors for GOES-O Weather Satellite