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In this chapter the basic conservation laws for mass, momentum, and energy are presented, including a discussion of appropriate boundary conditions. From the basic laws, budgets of other variables such as temperature and vorticity are derived. The result of the discussion will be a set of equations suitable to describe oceanic motions at all scales.
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Olbers, D., Willebrand, J., Eden, C. (2012). Conservation Laws for Moving Fluids. In: Ocean Dynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23450-7_2
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