Running the VIC Model

Download Source Code

To download the latest VIC source code, proceed to the download page.
The code is packaged in a compressed tar archive. Extract the contents via:
tar -xvzf filename
where filename = name of the file you downloaded, e.g. VIC_code_4.1.1.tar.gz

Change directory, cd, to the source code directory (extracted from the compressed tar archive above)
At the command prompt type:
make
If this completes without errors, you will now see a file called vicNl in this directory. vicNl is the executable file for the model.

At the command prompt, type:

vicNl -g global_parameter_filename

where global_parameter_filename = name of the global parameter file corresponding to your project.

If you'd like to capture VIC's screen output in a log file, you can do (in C-shell):

vicNl -g global_parameter_filename >& log.txt

where

global_parameter_filename = name of the global parameter file corresponding to your project.

log.txt = name of a log file to contain VIC's screen output.

VIC has a few other command line options:

vicNl -v: says which version of VIC this is
vicNl -h: prints a list of all the VIC command-line options
vicNl -o: prints a list of all of the current compile-time settings in this executable; to change thses settings, you must edit user_def.h and recompile using "make clean; make"

Last modified: Wed Aug 26 11:23:32 PDT 2009


	Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) Macroscale Hydrologic Model