| Let's take a look at the experiment results. The
            white dots on the screen are the neutrally floating
            beads. Looking at this, a current is flowing
            horizontally around the water tank in addition to the
            short-cycle waves. Further, you can see that the
            current is reversing periodically from the bottom of
            the tank (i.e. the top of the stratosphere). This happens because the wave does
            not simply oscillate back and forth but  the waves have momentum  in the direction of the phase velocity. The wave
            which passes through the current carries reverse
            momentum opposite to the current far away. This
            momentum reverses the current. |