Groundwater Research at Goshen College

The Community Land Model (CLM) is a scientific model of how earth's ecosystems affect the climate. The model tracks and predicts hundreds of variables, including total water storage (TWS).

Details

The CLM is created by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and is openly availible as a software package. We use this software to extract worldwide TWS data for a variety of time scales. This data represents predictions based on actual conditions at the beginning of a time period. The CLM predicts long term changes in climate such as from changing ecosystems and from human-caused climate change. It doesn't model direct human impacts on TWS, such as from agricultural usage.

You can read more about the CLM on their website.