Abstract
A solution is presented for the initial value problem that arises when a uniform wind stress is suddenly imposed on the surface of a circular, constant depth, two-layer lake that has similar characteristics to the Great Lakes under summer conditions. Even with this minimum number of dynamically significant features in the theoretical model (closed basin, two-layer structure, and constant Coriolis parameter) a number of experimentally found features in the behavior of the Great Lakes are reproduced in a realistic way, the most important such phenomena being (1) large thermocline movements near the shores, (2) coastal jets, (3) rotary currents in the center portion, (4) standing internal waves of long wavelength and large amplitude, (5) standing surface seiches, and (6) rotating surface and internal seiches.
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