This document provides an overview of the SIPNET model source code and utilities.

Organization and Packages

Organization strategy:

• SIPNET and derivative programs each have their own directory
• Stand-alone utilities all go into the utilities subdirectory

Main program - SIPNET

[Add description here of SIPNET's "compilation switch" strategy - which hopefully will become command-line params at some point, but not yet. We need to doc the possible switches somewhere...]

SIPNET derivatives

estimate: The parameter estimation program for SIPNET. Its operation is controlled by the file 'estimate.in'.

sensTest: [ARCHIVED] A program that tests the sensitivity of the model-data fit to values of a parameter (essentially a one-dimensional parameter estimation). Its operation is controlled by the file 'sensTest.in'.

Stand-alone Utilities

subsetData: A utility to subset a data record temporally. This utility can also perform daily aggregation on the data if so desired. Its operation is controlled by subset.in.

transpose: A little utility to transpose a text file that contains a rectangular matrix of data. This may be necessary to read certain files into Excel (e.g. the single-variable output files). Its usage is 'transpose filename'.

bintotxt, txttobin: Utilities to convert the hist file output from a estimate run from a binary file to a text file, and back again.