Running the VIC-2L Model

Running the VIC-2L model
The are several steps involved in running the VIC-2L Water Balance Model. I hope that this document will provide an overview of those steps, so that after reading this document, you will be able to configure and run the model for your process. Please send comments about how to improve this page to

vicadmin@hydro.washington.edu

Modeling Steps

Precipitation Data Preparation
Running the NWS Snow Accumulation and Ablation Model
VIC Input Files
Running VIC-2L
- vic2l executable for plane.ce.washington.edu (updated 6/25/96)
  Use right mouse button to save directly to file
- source code can be found in
  /nfs/hydro4/usr5/cherkaue/VIC-2L/Dag_Water_Balance, or
  /nfs/hydro4/usr5/cherkaue/VIC-2L/CLASS (note this version has multiple options for compilation, not all of which work correctly).
- A sample executable script for the Arkansas has also been included.
Preparing and Running a Routing Network

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