What is "cloud deck"

Usage examples of "cloud deck".

Yama discovered that he was terrified of falling, imagining himself plummeting through the cloud deck and continuing to fall until at last passing beyond the envelope of the world's atmosphere and perishing, as Angel had perished in the embrace of a copy of her own self.

The cloud deck which had covered the area the day before had broken up.

And then the Tomcat dropped through the cloud deck and Tombstone saw the carrier's lights.

For twelves of dajris, now, the Aetryx battle squadron had been hidden deep within the turbulent and cloudy atmosphere of Dis, held aloft against its massive gravitational pull by straining contra-gravity projectors, shielded from detection by the planets radar-scattering upper cloud deck and magnetic effects.

It was difficult to follow the track, through the breaks in the cloud deck.

The smoke from the remaining fire formed a slanted column in the wind, clear enough to be seen for miles beneath the broken cloud deck, and the pilot of the PBY saw it.

The egg reached the cloud deck, decelerated, and began a long, slow, 180-degree turn through thick clouds.

The Lockheed DC-130E Hercules cruised well above the low cloud deck, riding smoothly and solidly as it had done for 2,354 hours of logged flight time since leaving the Lockheed plant at Marietta, Georgia, several years earlier.

Below them an unbroken cloud deck stretched away in all directions.

Now was the time to drop the atmospheric probes - which, it was hoped, would survive long enough to send back some information from below the Jovian cloud deck.