Purdue VIC Model Users Group

These pages are designed to provide informaton specific to users of the VIC model at Purdue University. Specifically model updates for Midwestern agriculture and urbanization, datasets and tutorials for setting up and running the VIC model on Purdue computational resources. New users are refered to the official VIC model documentation for information on the model and it general applications. This site also provides documentation for tools specificaly developed at Purdue for processing VIC model inputs and outputs.

Available documents

• Model Development
• Setting up the VIC model for a new domain
  • 1. Establishing the Domain
  • 2. Creating the Climate Forcing Files
  • 3. Creating Soil Parameter File
  • 4. Creating Vegetation Parameter File
  • 5. Routing Streamflow
• tutorials for the VIC model
  • Introductiory Tutorials
    • Running a single grid cell simulation
    • Running a spatial simulation
    • Running the GIS routing model
  • Specialized Tutorials
    • Optimizing the VIC model
• VIC Model Development Code
• VIC Model Code and Tools