GNOME™ GENERAL NOAA OIL MODELING ENVIRONMENT User’s Manual January 2002 ATMOSP ND HE A RI IC C N A A D E M C I N O I S L T NATIONAL OCEANIC OFFICE OF RESPONSE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS A R N A O T I I T O A N N AND ATMOSPHERIC AND RESTORATION RESPONSE DIVISION U .S E . C D R E E ADMINISTRATION PA M RT OM MENT OF C Contents Welcome to GNOME ...........................................................................................................................1 About GNOME.........................................................................................................................1 What GNOME Can Do.............................................................................................................2 What GNOME Can’t Do ..........................................................................................................4 Getting and Installing GNOME ...............................................................................................4 How to Get What You Want From GNOME ..........................................................................5 Getting Help..............................................................................................................................6 The Help Menu ..................................................................................................................6 On a Macintosh ...........................................................................................................6 In Windows .................................................................................................................7 Help Buttons.......................................................................................................................9 How to Use This Manual........................................................................................................11 Learning the Basics ............................................................................................................................13 Introduction.............................................................................................................................13 Gearing Up..............................................................................................................................14 Setting Up Your Scenario.......................................................................................................15 Running the Spill Movie.........................................................................................................23 Dealing With Uncertainty.......................................................................................................24 Best Guess & Minimum Regret Trajectories.........................................................................26 Reinitializing your GNOME Trajectory relative to Overflight Observations ......................29 Exiting (Quitting) GNOME....................................................................................................41 What Now?..............................................................................................................................41 Working with GIS ..............................................................................................................................43 File Formats ............................................................................................................................43 NOAA Standard Splot Files ...................................................................................................44 GNOME Splot Files................................................................................................................45 BNA Map Files.......................................................................................................................46 Wind Data Files ......................................................................................................................46 Help with GIS Terminology...................................................................................................47 Reference .............................................................................................................................................49 Location Files..........................................................................................................................49 The Map Window ...................................................................................................................50 GNOME Tools........................................................................................................................52 i Reference (continued) GNOME Menus......................................................................................................................54 The File Menu..................................................................................................................54 Open….......................................................................................................................55 Close ..........................................................................................................................55 Save…........................................................................................................................56 Page Setup… or Print Setup… .................................................................................58 Print… .......................................................................................................................59 Preferences… ............................................................................................................61 Quit or Exit................................................................................................................63 The Edit Menu..................................................................................................................63 Cut..............................................................................................................................64 Copy...........................................................................................................................64 Paste...........................................................................................................................64 The Item Menu.................................................................................................................64 Location Wizard…....................................................................................................64 Add… ........................................................................................................................65 Settings… ..................................................................................................................66 Delete.........................................................................................................................67 The Model Menu..............................................................................................................67 Run.............................................................................................................................67 Step ............................................................................................................................67 Run until… ................................................................................................................67 Reset ..........................................................................................................................68 The Help Menu ................................................................................................................68 On a Macintosh .........................................................................................................68 About Balloon Help… .......................................................................................69 Show Balloons....................................................................................................69 Hide Balloons .....................................................................................................69 Topics…..............................................................................................................69 In Windows ...............................................................................................................70 Contents ..............................................................................................................70 Search for Help On….........................................................................................71 How to Use Help ................................................................................................71 About GNOME… ..............................................................................................72 Troubleshooting..................................................................................................................................73 Appendix..............................................................................................................................................75 Glossary ...............................................................................................................................................79 Index.....................................................................................................................................................89 ii Chapter 1 Welcome to GNOME Welcome to GNOME, the