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Kinetic PreProcessor
KPP
Developer(s)Adrian Sandu
Rolf Sander
Michael Long
Haipeng Lin
Robert Yantosca
Stable release
3.3.0 / July 2025
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeTechnical computing
LicenseGPL
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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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Model Description
BASCOE A data assimilation system based on a chemical transport model and created by the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB)
Boream Model for the degradation of alpha-pinene
BOXMOX Box model extensions to KPP
CMAQ Community Multiscale Air Quality model
DSMACC Dynamically Simple Model of Atmospheric Chemical Complexity
GEOS-Chem Global 3-D chemical transport model for atmospheric composition
KPP-Standalone A standalone implementation of KPP used to test and debug GEOS-Chem, GCHP, or GEOS-CF mechanisms.
MALTE Model to predict new aerosol formation in the lower troposphere
MCM Master Chemical Mechanism
MECCA Module Efficiently Calculating the Chemistry of the Atmosphere
Mistra Microphysical Stratus model
PACT-1D Platform for Atmospheric Chemistry and vertical Transport in 1-dimension
PALM Meteorological modeling system for atmospheric and oceanic boundary layer flows
RACM Regional Atmospheric Chemistry Mechanism gas-phase chemistry mechanism
WRF-Chem Weather Research & Forecasting Model with Chemistry

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