In case study 2, answer the following questions:

a. What are the initial inputs in a land-surface model like VIC? How is this information obtained?

b. How can the VIC software be installed? What is the prerequirement software for this package? The information is available at https://vic.readthedocs.io/en/master/ website.

c. Provide information about cell resolution (also, explain what is the appropriate cell resolution for this type of modeling. Hint: different resolutions are used for different purposes).

d. What are the inputs and outputs of VIC’s model?