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Here are references for some of GNOME's methodologies and uses.

General reference:

Beegle-Krause, C.J. and C. O'Connor. 2005. GNOME Data Formats and associated example data files. Seattle: NOAA Office of Response and Restoration, Emergency Response Division (formerly Hazardous Materials Response Division). 49 pp.
Beegle-Krause, C.J. General NOAA Oil Modeling Environment (GNOME): A New Spill Trajectory Model. IOSC 2001 Proceedings, Tampa, FL, March 26-29, 2001. St. Louis, MO: Mira Digital Publishing, Inc. Vol. 2: pp. 865-871.
Beegle-Krause, C.J. 1999. GNOME: NOAA's Next-Generation Spill Trajectory Model. Oceans '99 MTS/IEEE Proceedings. Escondido, CA: MTS/IEEE Conference Committee. vol. 3: pp. 1262-1266.

GNOME in use:

Başar, E., E. Köse, and A. Güneroglu. 2006. Finding risky areas for oil spillage after tanker accidents at Istanbul strait. Int. J. Environment and Pollution. 27(4):388–400.
Engie, K. and T. Klinger. 2007. Modeling Passive Dispersal through a Large Estuarine System to Evaluate Marine Reserve Network Connections. Estuaries and Coasts. 30(2):201–213.

Lagrangian element file format:

Galt, J.A., D.L. Payton, H. Norris, and C. Friel. 1996. Digital Distribution Standard for NOAA Trajectory Analysis Information. ERD (formerly HAZMAT) Report 96-4. Seattle: NOAA Emergency Response Division (formerly Hazardous Materials Response and Assessment Division). 43 pp.

Using new observational and predicted fields in GNOME:

Beegle-Krause, CJ, C. O’Connor, G. Watabayashi, I. Zelo, and C. Childs. NOAA Safe Seas Exercise 2006: new data streams, data communication and forecasting capabilities for spill forecasting. AMOP 2007 Proceedings, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, June 5-7, 2007. Ottawa, Ont.: Environment Canada. 2007.
NOAA's Office of Response & Restoration (OR&R) Emergency Response Division (ERD) (formerly Hazardous Materials Response Division [HAZMAT]) and U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters' Office of Search and Rescue, How to Make Your Model's Products Useful to NOAA HAZMAT and USCG Search and Rescue Operations. 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI, February 20-24, 2006. Poster.
Beegle-Krause, C.J. Advantages of Separating the Circulation Model and Trajectory Model: GNOME Trajectory Model Used with Outside Circulation Models. AMOP 2003 Proceedings, Victoria, B.C., Canada, June 10-12, 2003. Ottawa, Ont.: Environment Canada. 2003. Vol 2: pp. 825-840.
Beegle-Krause, C.J., J. Callahan, and C. O'Connor. NOAA Model Extended to Use Nowcast/Forecast Currents. IOSC 2003 Proceedings, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, April 6-11, 2003. API Publication No. 14730.

Integration of GNOME with Clarkson Deepwater Oil and Gas (CDOG) Model:

Beegle-Krause, C.J. and W. Lynch. Combining Modeling with Response in Potential Deep Well Blowout: Lessons Learned from Thunder Horse. IOSC 2005 Proceedings, Miami Beach, FL, May 15-19, 2005. Miami, FL: EIS Digital Publishing. 2005.
Yapa, P.D., F.H. Chen, and C.J. Beegle-Krause. Integration of the CDOG Deep Water Oil and Gas Blowout Model with the NOAA GNOME Trajectory Model. AMOP 2003 Proceedings, Victoria, B.C., Canada, June 10-12, 2003. Ottawa, Ont.: Environment Canada. 2003. Vol 2: pp. 935-951.

Lagrangian particle tracking technique for modeling oils spills:

Anon. 1996. State-of-the-art review of modeling transport and fate of oil spills. Task committee on modeling of oil spills of the water resources engineering division. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering-ASCE. 122(11): 594-609, Nov. 1996.

Uncertainty:

Galt, J.A. 1998. Uncertainty Analysis Related to Oil Spill Modeling. Spill Science & Technology, 4(4):231-238.

Diffusion simulated as a random walk:

Csanady, G.T. 1973. Turbulent Diffusion in the Environment. Geophysics and Astrophysics Monographs, vol. 3. Dordrecht, Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Company. 248 p. illus.

CATS hydrodynamic model:

Galt, J.A. 1980. A finite-element solution procedure for the interpolation of current data in complex regions. Journal of Physical Oceanography 10:1984-1997.

Downloads

GNOME Data Formats The latest input/output data formats and the GNOME format documentation. Example data files are discussed in the documentation and are available below.
(Document format: PDF, size: 216.6 K)

Example Data Files for Windows 2000/XP
(Software format: Zip, size: 3.4 M)

Example Data Files for Macintosh
(Software format: StuffIt Archive, size: 2.3 M)

Digital Distribution Standard for NOAA Trajectory Analysis Information A 1996 technical description of a method for preparing a set of "minimum regret" trajectory model runs for use in trajectory analysis, and a standard digital file format for presenting the results.
(Document format: PDF, size: 230.9 K)

How to Make Your Model's Products Useful to NOAA HAZMAT and USCG Search and Rescue Operations A poster that provides suggestions for making model products more useful to responders, such as NOAA's Emergency Response Division (ERD) (formerly HAZMAT) and the USCG Search and Rescue Operations.
(Document format: PDF, size: 6.3 M)

Combining Modeling with Response in Potential Deep Well Blowout: Lessons Learned from Thunder Horse An IOSC paper describing integration of the GNOME spill trajectory model with the Clarkson Deepwater Oil and Gas (CDOG) model.
(Document format: PDF, size: 153.8 K)

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