| Does that kind of thing really happen? Let's try
            it out in an experiment. We made a stable
            stratification in a donut-shaped water tank using
            salt, and assumed it to be the equatorial
            stratosphere. In the real stratosphere, waves are
            transmitted from below, however, it isn't easy to
            cause waves at the bottom of a water tank. Instead,
            we turned  the model upside-down  and vibrated a rubber membrane on the surface of
            the water with air, and created waves (internal
            gravity waves) that way. Waves are vertically symmetrical, so turning the
            model upside-down essentially doesn't affect the
            model. The problem is whether or not a one-way
            current will be formed by the waves oscillating
            symmetrically back and forth, and if that current
            will reverse as planned.  |