Evanescent level

From Glossary of Meteorology



evanescent level

A theoretical boundary between a region in the fluid where waves of some frequency are propagating and a region in the fluid where waves of the same frequency do not propagate (where they are evanescent).

This is
also called a critical level but is distinct from the critical level where the background flow has the same speed as the phase speed of the waves.


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