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* Trajectory maps are produced using GNOME (General NOAA Operational Modeling Environment), which is an oil spill trajectory model developed by OR&R Emergency Response Division. The model predicts how wind, currents, and other processes might move and spread oil spilled on the water. Output from several hydrodynamic models are used for ocean currents within GNOME (these include operational models run by NOAA Office of Coastal Survey, the Naval Oceanographic Office, and the Naval Research Lab; and academic models run at University of South Florida and North Carolina State). NOAA National Weather Sevice provides a wind forecast for the spill region twice daily. The model is run multiple times with the different wind and current sources to produce the final trajectory map and to estimate the uncertainty associated with the prediction. * Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA) is a web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) tool that assists both emergency responders and environmental resource managers in dealing with incidents that may adversely impact the environment. ERMA integrates and synthesizes various real-time and static datasets into a single interactive map. ERMA is one tool to view Oil Trajectory Maps.