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ABSTRACT; In recent years, global warming caused by the increase of carbon dioxide, and marine pollution are attracting social attention as they exert a grave effect on the global environment and national life as well. Marine pollution caused by a petroleum tanker wreck in Alaska posed a major problem under such a background. To elucidate marine phenomena, about which little information is available as compared with atmospheric phenomena, the development of an ocean circulation model which indicates the movement of seawater throughout the ocean will make it possible to precisely grasp the movement of substances between the atomosphere and the ocean as well as in the ocean.
In this paper, the circulation model and its outlook are discussed, indicating that the modelling will become a useful means to elucidate the migration of CO2 and the diffusion phenomena of oil, radioactive substances, etc.
