VIC Operations

This page contains links to various documents, which should help the average user make use of the VIC large scale hydrologic model. Please mail corrections, comments, and suggestions to vicadmin@hydro.washington.edu.

Model Operation Overview

• Model Operation Overview and Sample Data Sets
• Summary of VIC processes (VIC overview, distributed precipitation, snow algorithm and elevation bands)

Model Preprocessing

• Gridding Atmospheric Forcing Data
• Disaggregating Daily Precipitation
• Preparing Soil and Vegetation Parameter Files
• Preparing the Snow Band Definition File
• Preparing the Routing Network

Pre-processor Options

• Pre-processor options

Input Parameters and Forcing File Data Types

• Model Control File
• Soil Parameters: ASCII Column Format (original) or ASCII ARC/INFO Grid Format
• Vegetation Parameters
• Vegetation Library
• Snow Elevation Bands
• Forcing Data

Grid Cell Initialization Input Files (Optional)

• Model State File

Output File Formats

• Standard Output Files
  • Flux Files
  • Snow Files
  • Snow Band Files
  • Frozen Soil File
• LDAS Project Output Files

Post Model Run Processing

• Reducing Hourly Output to Daily
• Generating Outflow Hydrographs using the Routing Model
• Available Plotting Scripts
• Splus
• GMT

VIC Model Utility Packages

• Aggregation of VIC model files
• Optimization of VIC model parameters

Technical Notes