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The law of conservation of momentum, or the equation of motion, is derived for drift ice from Newton's second law for a continuum in Section 5.1. By integrating through the thickness of ice, the two-dimensional equations can be obtained.
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Leppäranta, M. (2011). Equation of drift ice motion. In: The Drift of Sea Ice. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04683-4_5
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