Installation

Requirements

Table 1. A summary of the EVB framework environmental requirements

Category	Package Name	Functionality	Reference	Source
Basic computation and visualization	NumPy	Arrays and operations	Harris et al. (2020)	https://numpy.org/
	pandas	Data frames and operations	Mckinney (2011)	https://pandas.pydata.org/
	Matplotlib	Plotting	Hunter (2007)	https://matplotlib.org/
	SciPy	Scientific computing	Virtanen et al. (2020)	https://github.com/scipy/scipy
	tqdm	Progress bar	Da Costa-Luis (2019)	https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm
Geospatial data processing	GeoPandas	Geospatial data processing and geometric operations	Jordahl et al. (2020)	https://geopandas.org/
	netCDF4	Processing NetCDF format data	Rew and Davis (1990)	https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf4-python
	Xarray	Processing multidimensional arrays and NetCDF format data	Hoyer and Hamman (2017)	https://github.com/pydata/xarray
	Rasterio	Processing gridded raster datasets	Gillies (2013)	https://github.com/rasterio/rasterio
	Cartopy	Spatial plotting and spatial reference	Office (2010-2015)	https://github.com/SciTools/cartopy
	Whitebox-Workflows	Hydrological analysis	Lindsay and Wu (2021)	https://www.whiteboxgeo.com/whitebox-workflows-for-python/
Optimization	DEAP	Evolutionary computation framework	Fortin et al. (2012)	https://github.com/deap/deap
	ArcPy	Hydrological analysis	Esri (2024)	https://pro.arcgis.com/

To install the package, run one of the following commands:

Basic installation

pip install easy_vic_build

For additional dependencies

pip install easy_vic_build[nco]
pip install easy_vic_build[rvic]
pip install easy_vic_build[nco_rvic]

Alternatively, you can install from a .whl file:

pip install .whl
pip install .whl[nco]
pip install .whl[rvic]
pip install .whl[nco_rvic]

For development purposes

git clone https://github.com/XudongZhengSteven/easy_vic_build
cd easy_vic_build
pip install -e .