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GNOME Location Files and Associated Resources
Location Files contain prepackaged tides and currents in a particular area. You can use the Location File for a particular region of interest in GNOME to simplify your trajectory modeling of oil spills in that region. Don't use Location Files to model real oil spills! Take the GNOME Learning the Basics Tour (see the link, Manual/Tour, above) to find out why not.
Below are links where you can download Location Files to use in GNOME. Along with each file is (1) a brief User's Guide for that file, and (2) a set of Example Problems designed to help you learn to work with that Location File.
We recommend that you download the latest version of GNOME whenever you get a new Location File. (Use the Download/Install link, above.) Many Location Files will run better with the latest version, and new versions also have useful new features.
Location File Downloads
Use the links below to visit the sections of our Download Catalog that contain the Location Files, User's Guides, and Example Problems.
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Installing Location Files
The GNOME Location Files have been compressed as self-extracting zip files so that they can be downloaded more easily from the Internet. Some browsers are configured to automatically uncompact (or "unzip") compressed files. If yours is, each Location File that you download should be automatically uncompacted.
If your browser is not configured to decode files, you'll need a decoding utility to uncompact them. (You can obtain evaluation versions of WinZip [leaves OR&R site] or Stuffit Expander [leaves OR&R site] from their Web sites.) Use your decoding utility to uncompact each Location File that you download.
Place each Location File, once it's uncompacted, in the "Gnome" folder on your computer.
Example Problems
Try working some of the example problems to build your GNOME skills and learn to work with Location Files. To solve the problems in any set below, you'll need both GNOME and the Location File corresponding to the problem set.
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