Design VIC single cell test cases for comparison of VIC classic and VIC image

[bartnijssen]

All tests to be run with one year of meteorological data. All meteorological variables to be specified at the model time step (since VIC image no longer has the MTCLIM generator). All tests with 3 soil layers for now.

1. Tests will be implemented for various combinations of model options:

WB	EB	SB	TL	TLV	FZ	CB	LK	test ID
X								WB
X		X						WB-SB
X		X	X					WB-SB-TL
X		X		X				WB-SB-TLV
	X							EB
	X	X						EB-SB
	X	X	X					EB-SB-TL
	X	X		X				EB-SB-TLV
	X				X			EB-FZ
	X	X			X			EB-SB-FZ

• WB - water balance mode
• EB - energy balance mode
• SB - snow bands > 1 (for now test with fixed number of snow bands)
• TL - treeline option with bare soil as the above treeline vegetation type
• TLV - treeline option with specified vegetation as the above treeline vegetation type
• FZ - frozen soil (probably needs to be split out for different options)
• CB - carbon
• LK - lake

All water balance simulations will be done using a 24 hour time step. All energy balance simulations will be done using a one hour time step.

1. The tests should be repeated for the following vegetation types:
   • BS: 100% bare soil
   • VNO: 100% vegetation without overstory
   • VWO: 100% vegetation with overstory
   • BS-VNO: 50% bare soil / 50% veg w/o overstory
   • BS-VWO: 50% bare soil / 50% veg w overstory
   • VNO-VWO: 50% veg w/o overstory / 50% veg w overstory
   • BS-VNO-VWO: 40% bare soil / 30% veg w/o overstory / 30% veg w overstory
2. The tests should be repeated for different meteorological conditions:
   • temperature
     • CLD: cold (mean annual air temperature < 0ºC)
     • TMP: temperate (mean annual air temperature < 10ºC)
     • WRM: warm (mean annual air temperature > 10ºC)
     • TRP: tropical (mean annual air temperature > 18ºC)
   • precipitation
     • DES: desert (mean annual precipitation < 100 mm/year)
     • SAR: semi-arid (mean annual precipitation < 500 mm/year)
     • SBH: sub-humid (mean annual precipitation < 1000 mm/year)
     • HUM: humid (mean annual precipitation > 2500 mm/year)

Test case IDs are constructed by appending the varying test instance IDs, separate by single dashes(-). All files and directories associated with a specific test will be identified by this ID.