.. _acknowledgments:

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Acknowledgements
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This work has been supported by:

- The US EPA `Science to Achieve Results (EPA-STAR)
  <https://www.epa.gov/research-grants/air-research-grants>`_
  program (grant # `R840014
  <https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.abstractDetail/abstract_id/11083/report/0>`_);

- The NASA `Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction (MAP)
  <https://map.nasa.gov>`_ program;

- The NASA `Atmospheric Composition Modeling and Analysis
  (ACMAP)
  <https://airbornescience.nasa.gov/category/Discipline/Atmospheric_Composition_Modeling_and_Analysis_Program>`_ program;

- The NASA `Advanced Systems Information Technology (AIST)
  <https://esto.nasa.gov/aist>`_ program (grant #
  `AIST-18-0011 <https://esto.nasa.gov/project-selections-for-aist-18/#martin>`_)

We thank Jason Lander for his suggestions how
to migrate from :program:`yacc` to :program:`bison`.

We would also like to thank Lucas Estrada for his assistance in
setting up the :ref:`ci-tests` on `Azure DevOps Pipelines
<https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/pipelines/>`_ and
for assistance with debugging.

Shaddy Ahmed and Jennie Thomas helped us with the Matlab
output of KPP.

We thank Domenico Taraborrelli for providing the
rosenbrock_posdef_h211b_qssa solver.

Stuart Lacy wrote an export function for the `Master Chemical Mechanism
<https://mcm.york.ac.uk/MCM/export>`_. It creates KPP files that can be
used out-of-the-box for the small model in the :file:`examples/mcm`
directory.

Simon Rosanka improved the :code:`Update_RCONST` subroutine by providing
time-dependent concentration values via an optional parameter.

Parts of this user manual are based on :cite:t:`Damian-Iordache_1996`.