FORMULATION OF THE TIDAL PREDICTION SYSTEM AND IT'S APPLICATION

With the combination of existing tidal prediction model and numerical tidal model, the efficient tidal prediction system was formulated and applied to the neighboring area of Pusan port. Beacuse all tidal constituents for prediction (normally 69 constituents are used) can't be considered due to difficulties on computing efforts, some errors between the observed and predicted values were inevitably occurred. But it was confirmed that the practical results with about 10% of relative errors were obtained if four major tidal constituents(M₂, S₂, K₁, O₁) are used at least. Thus, if other constituents than four major tidal constituents are additionaly used, more accurate results will be obtained. Futhermore, if the databases of harmonic constants in coastal waters is made in advance using the numerical tidal model, prompt tidal prediction could be achived whenever required.