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
ModelDescriptionBASCOEA data assimilation system based on a chemical transport model and created by the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB)BoreamModel for the degradation of alpha-pineneBOXMOXBox model extensions to KPPCMAQCommunity Multiscale Air Quality modelDSMACCDynamically Simple Model of Atmospheric Chemical ComplexityGEOS-ChemGlobal 3-D chemical transport model for atmospheric compositionKPP-StandaloneA standalone implementation of KPP used to test and debug GEOS-Chem, GCHP, or GEOS-CF mechanisms.MALTEModel to predict new aerosol formation in the lower troposphereMCMMaster Chemical Mechanism MECCAModule Efficiently Calculating the Chemistry of the AtmosphereMistraMicrophysical Stratus modelPACT-1DPlatform for Atmospheric Chemistry and vertical Transport in 1-dimensionPALMMeteorological modeling system for atmospheric and oceanic boundary layer flowsRACMRegional Atmospheric Chemistry Mechanism gas-phase chemistry mechanismWRF-ChemWeather Research & Forecasting Model with Chemistry
See also Chemical kinetics Autochem CHEMKIN Cantera Chemical WorkBench
External links KPP documentation GitHub repository KPP web page The Kinetic PreProcessor KPP 3.0.0 The Kinetic PreProcessor KPP-2.1 Forward, Tangent Linear, and Adjoint Runge Kutta Methods in KPP–2.2 for Efficient Chemical Kinetic Simulations KPPA (the Kinetic PreProcessor: Accelerated) KPP Fortran to CUDA source-to-source Pre-processor (Open License)