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The fundamental physical laws used in numerical models of the ocean circulation are known: the foundation is the Navier-Stokes equations. However, every ocean model is only an approximation of the complete physics. Sometimes simplifications are deliberately introduced in order to isolate a subset of the physics believed to be essential to the phenomena under study, but in all cases computational feasibility demands approximation.
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Cane, M.A. (1986). Introduction to Ocean Modeling. In: O’Brien, J.J. (eds) Advanced Physical Oceanographic Numerical Modelling. NATO ASI Series, vol 186. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0627-8_2
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