On Christmas Eve the wind was blowing hard from the south creating large waves on Coniston Water. If you enlarge the pictures you might see the waves. You can see the raised water level in the second picture. It made me wonder what happens to the water. If the surface water is all being pushed to the northern end of the lake, what happens? Does that mean that the water level is higher at the northern end and that the lake acts as a sort of pumped storage scheme? Or is there a counter current below the surface moving water back south in a manner akin to a convection current? I've been considering how to make lab models to check these hypotheses.
