Kinetic PreProcessor
{{Infobox Software | name = KPP
| developer = Adrian Sandu
Rolf Sander
Michael Long
Haipeng Lin
Robert Yantosca
| latest_release_version = 3.2.1
| latest_release_date = May 2025
| operating_system = Cross-platform
| genre = Technical computing
| license = GPL
| website = [https://kpp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/] [http://people.cs.vt.edu/~asandu/Software/Kpp/]
}}
The Kinetic PreProcessor (KPP) is an open-source software tool used in atmospheric chemistry. Taking a set of chemical reactions and their rate coefficients as input, KPP generates Fortran 90, FORTRAN 77, C, or Matlab code
of the resulting ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Solving the ODEs allows the temporal integration of the kinetic system. Efficiency is obtained by exploiting the sparsity structures of the Jacobian and of the Hessian. A comprehensive suite of stiff numerical integrators is also provided. Moreover, KPP can be used to generate the tangent linear model, as well as the continuous and discrete adjoint models of the chemical system.
Models using KPP
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!width="150px"|Model !width="650px"|Description |
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|[https://strato.aeronomie.be/bascoe BASCOE] |A data assimilation system based on a chemical transport model and created by the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB) |
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|[https://tropo.aeronomie.be/ProjectDir/boream/menumap.html Boream] |Model for the degradation of alpha-pinene |
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|[https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/modeling/boxmox-box-model-extensions-kpp BOXMOX] |Box model extensions to KPP |
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|[https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2867-2021 CMAQ] |Community Multiscale Air Quality model |
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|[https://github.com/barronh/DSMACC DSMACC] |Dynamically Simple Model of Atmospheric Chemical Complexity |
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|[https://geoschem.github.io GEOS-Chem] |Global 3-D chemical transport model for atmospheric composition |
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|[https://github.com/KineticPreProcessor/KPP-Standalone KPP-Standalone] |A standalone implementation of KPP used to test and debug GEOS-Chem, [https://gchp.readthedocs.io GCHP], or [https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/weather_prediction/GEOS-CF/ GEOS-CF] mechanisms. |
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|[https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/multi-scale-modelling/malte-box MALTE] |Model to predict new aerosol formation in the lower troposphere |
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|[http://mcm.york.ac.uk MCM] |Master Chemical Mechanism |
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|[http://www.mecca.messy-interface.org/ MECCA] |Module Efficiently Calculating the Chemistry of the Atmosphere |
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|[https://github.com/Mistra-UEA/Mistra Mistra] |Microphysical Stratus model |
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|[https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD036140 PACT-1D] |Platform for Atmospheric Chemistry and vertical Transport in 1-dimension |
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|[https://palm.muk.uni-hannover.de/trac/wiki/doc/app/chemdesc PALM] |Meteorological modeling system for atmospheric and oceanic boundary layer flows |
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|[https://doi.org/10.1029/97JD00849 RACM] |Regional Atmospheric Chemistry Mechanism gas-phase chemistry mechanism |
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|[https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/wrf-chem WRF-Chem] |Weather Research & Forecasting Model with Chemistry |
See also
External links
- [https://kpp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ KPP documentation]
- [https://github.com/kineticPreProcessor/KPP GitHub repository]
- [http://people.cs.vt.edu/~asandu/Software/Kpp/ KPP web page]
- [https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022MS003293 The Kinetic PreProcessor KPP 3.0.0]
- [http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/6/187/ The Kinetic PreProcessor KPP-2.1]
- [http://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00000914/01/kpp-2.2_RungeKutta.pdf Forward, Tangent Linear, and Adjoint Runge Kutta Methods in KPP–2.2 for Efficient Chemical Kinetic Simulations]
- [http://www.paratools.com/Kppa KPPA (the Kinetic PreProcessor: Accelerated)]
- [https://openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/jors.158/ KPP Fortran to CUDA source-to-source Pre-processor (Open License)]
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