Large northern hemisphere lakes show an apparent mean surface drift in the counterclockwise direction. The effect can be explained by the Lagrange drift induced at second order by internal Kelvin waves. Reversals of the mean drift with depth are predicted.
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Carl Wunsch (1973) studied this question.
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