Kutay Dรถnmez

Meteorological Engineer &
Environmental Sciences, PhD Researcher at ETH Zurich

kutay.doenmez@empa.ch
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About Me
Hi there! I'm a dedicated PhD student at Empa, affiliated with ETH Zurich, in the Department of Environmental System Sciences. Under the guidance of Dominik Brunner in the Atmospheric Modeling & Remote Sensing group, my research focuses on urban climate dynamics.

I have been improving myself to think like an engineer and observe like an atmospheric scientist, which has led me to develop new ideas to assist Climate Science. One of those ideas was to create a website, ๐‚๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ค, that reveals the climate conditions of atmospheric variables in Turkey, using comprehensive statistical and thermodynamic methods. I processed the state-of-art climate data utilizing various data types (NETCDF, HDF5, GRIB, CSV) with popular Python libraries (Xarray, Numpy, Pandas, Salem, Matplotlib) and visualized it to the end-user in very engaging ways. 

I developed a Python library called ๐•๐ข๐ฌ๐ฃ๐จ๐›๐ฌ (https://pypi.org/project/visjobs/) (downloaded over ๐Ÿ8.๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ times according to pepy.tech) that makes it easy for atmospheric scientists to access model and observation data (ERA5, GFS, GEFS, NAM, GHCN) without even having to download them (OpenDAP).

Currently
My work involves exploring the impact of street trees on urban cooling, human thermal comfort, and carbon exchange between the atmosphere, utilizing and enhancing ICON-ART mesoscale model and Terra_Urb/Bep-Tree urban parameterizations.
Interested In
- Python | (e.g. Numpy, Pandas, Xarray, Sklearn, Keras, Matplotlib, Metpy)
- Data Science | (Weather/Climate Data Science/Analytics)
- Climate Science | (Climate Modelling using COSMO)
- Machine Learning | (Time Series Modelling)
- WRF Model | (Weather Modelling, Case Studies)
- Visualization | (e.g. Matplotlib, Plotly)
- Renewable Energy | (Wind, Solar Power Data Science/Analytics)
- Dashboards | (e.g. Plotly-Dash, Streamlit)