The common land surface model was developed by scientists interested in land model for public use and further development. The main characteristics of the model include sufficient non-uniform interlayer to fully represent soil temperature and soil moisture, and multi-layer parameterization of snow process; clear treatment of liquid water and ice water quality in snow soil system; runoff parameterization under the concept of topmeod; a canopy photosynthetic conductivity model, which describes the simultaneous transfer of carbon dioxide and water vapor in plants; and a model of canopy photosynthesis conductivity; The sub grid fraction of energy and water balance is tiled. CLM has been widely evaluated in offline mode and coupled with the NCAR community climate model (CCM3).