Valentin Louf
Research Scientist at Bureau of Meteorology
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolValentin Louf is a research scientist at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology with nine years' experience specializing in radar remote sensing, calibration, and convective cloud applications for model parametrization. He holds a PhD in atmospheric physics and has pioneered practical tools and algorithms—such as the RCA clutter calibration method and a state-of-the-art Doppler velocity dealiasing technique—now used in operational networks and scientific archives. A prolific Python developer and open-source contributor (notably improving the widely used Py-ART toolkit and maintaining cpol_processing and dealias repositories), he brings production-grade coding to atmospheric science workflows. His work spans instrument simulation, airborne and spaceborne radar analysis, and machine-learning–driven nowcasting, and he maintains the CPOL radar dataset relied on by researchers worldwide. Less obvious: his dealiasing algorithm has been shown to outperform alternatives in the literature, reflecting a blend of theoretical rigor and pragmatic engineering.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physique, Mention très honorable avec félicitations du jury, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physique, Mention très honorable avec félicitations du jury at Université Lille IMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Physics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Physics at Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (Lille I)Université Denis Diderot (Paris VII) / University Paris VII
English, German, French
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Github Skills (6)
py10
python10
numpy9
data-visualizations7
data-visualisation7
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ARM-DOE/pyart
May 2017 - Jun 2020
The Python-ARM Radar Toolkit. A data model driven interactive toolkit for working with weather radar data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 8 PRs, 24 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Valentin primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the pyart library. They addressed issues related to data processing, specifically resolving an `OverflowError` in the `despeckle` function and an `H5Py OSError` when working with ODIM HDF5 files. The user also made improvements to the code, fixing an `AttributeError` related to Python 3.6 compatibility in the `cfradial` module and correcting issues in the azimuth and range sampling.
model-drivenpythonradar-processingradardata-driven-model
vlouf/opol_processing
Mar 2020 - Sep 2022
🚢📡 OceanPOL dual-polarization radar processing pipeline 🚢📡
Contributions:87 commits, 1 PR, 76 pushes in 2 years 6 months
pipelineradarradar-processingprocessing-pipelinedual
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