COMPUTER-SIMULATION MODELING OF BUOYANCY CHANGE IN MICROCYSTIS

This paper reviews the development of the SCUM series of models and pr esents additional algorithms for calculating surface radiation flux an d growth. The first SCUM models used data obtained by laboratory inves tigation of Oscillatoria agardhii by Kromkamp & Walsby (1990). However when applied to other species the models became unstable. More recent attempts have taken a different and more theoretical approach combini ng lake mixing and modelling components of SCUM with a buoyancy routin e (CYANARA) developed at the Institute of Freshwater Ecology. Model al gorithms and sample model results are briefly described. The growing i mportance of the World Wide Web in modelling is highlighted and explai ned.