A (Arka) Mitra

Arka Mitra is a researcher working on the satellite remote sensing and product development of trace gas (NO2, HCHO, etc.) climate records at the Meteorology & Air Quality (MAQ) division. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Physics from the Presidency University, Kolkata, India, and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA. His past work (2023 onwards) focused on investigating satellite, and reanalysis model data to understand the linkages between clouds, precipitation and near-surface winds off the coast of the western United States. This work was funded by the US Department of Energy (DoE) and for characterizing offshore wind resources. He also collaborated with researchers from UIUC & NASA to help generate a novel 2-layered cloud-top height global satellite records by merigng stereo and infrared satellite retrievals (based out of his PhD research). He has 7+ years of experience in using remote sensing data from various sources (satellites, ground based and aerial) for a variety of different applications – long-term cloud analysis, satellite uncertainty quantification, satellite fusion, building machine learning models of the ionosphere, among many more. He is always keenly interested in multi-disciplinary research at the intersection of Earth Observation and extreme weather mitigation/adaptation. 

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