GNOME (General NOAA Operational Modeling Environment) is a modeling tool developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Office of Response and Restoration (ORR), Emergency Response Division.
It is designed to support oil and other hazardous material spills in the coastal environment.
And this is a python package that encapsulates GNOME's functionality.
This code is under active development
- It should not be considered an officially endorsed NOAA product.
- Output produced by this code should not be considered endorsed by NOAA.
For the "operational" version, please see our main web site:
http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/gnome
We have put some effort into making this package reasonably easy, or at least possible, to install in a number of ways on a few different computing platforms:
- OS-X
- Windows
- Linux (tested on CentOS 7)
The "tricky" part is installing the dependencies: details in the following:
The conda package manager is built primarily for scientific, engineering,
and math applications it is the easiest way to get set up to use py_gnome, and it what is used in our development and testing process.
If you don't want to / can't use conda -- here are some notes on that:
Scripting is of course the most featureful way to access PyGnome's capabilities. However we do have a few projects in development that allow a user to create and run PyGnome models from a web browser.
There is a publicly available instance of WebGNOME at:
If you are curious, you can check out the following projects:
- WebGnomeAPI: A web server that implements the PyGnome interface
- WebGnomeClient: A Web application for setting up and running PyGnome models
Fair Warning:
These projects are under active development, and by their very nature do not implement the full capabilities of PyGnome.