A Numerical Simulation on Red Tide Formation

Gymnodinium mikimotoi is one of several species of flagellates that cause harmful red tides. The red tides of G. mikimotoi have occurred only along $33-35^{\circ}$ N, e.g. Chinhae Bay in Korea, tile Seto Inland Sea and Kumane-Nada in Japan. I try to reproduce the formation of red ties of G. mikimotoi at Suo-Nada and Iyo-Nada, the western part of Seto Inland Sea, Japan in July 1985 with the use of four-dimensional assimilation model including the biological process of G. mikimotoi in this paper. (omitted)