This section will help you operate GNOME and learn some of the fundamental concepts you need to know to use it effectively. If you haven't used GNOME before, be sure to download the GNOME User's Manual [PDF, 868.6 KB].
We recommend that you first review Chapter 1, which gives a basic explanation of GNOME, and then try the Learning the Basics tour described in Chapter 2 of the User's Manual. As you take the tour, you'll find out how to operate GNOME and learn some of the fundamental concepts you need to know to use GNOME effectively.
Take a Tour of GNOME
- After downloading the GNOME User's Manual [PDF, 868.6 KB], print out Chapter 2: Learning the Basics (on a color printer if possible), so you can use it as you work with GNOME. This chapter guides you, step-by-step, through a GNOME scenario describing a hypothetical crude oil spill into Long Island Sound.
- Visit our Downloading, Installing, and Running GNOME page to learn about downloading and installing GNOME. The Location File for Central Long Island Sound comes with GNOME. You'll need it for the tour.
Build Your Skills
To continue to build your GNOME skills, try the example problems available through our Location Files page.
GNOME Technical Documentation
- GNOME Technical Documentation [PDF version, 2.4 MB; Word version, 2.5 MB]: This document includes the Data Formats document as Appendix A.
- GNOME Data Formats [PDF version, 880 KB; Word version, 851 KB]: This document describes the latest input/output data formats and provides the GNOME format documentation. Example data files are discussed in the documentation and are available below.
The example data files have been compressed as self-extracting files so that they can be downloaded more easily from the Internet. [Need help with compressed files?] Once you've unzipped the data files, look for the folder Data Files in Format Document. You can then open the files in a text editor or in GNOME.
- Example Data Files for Windows 2000/XP [Zip, 3.3 MB]
- Example Data Files for Mac [StuffIt Archive, 2.2 MB]
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