4800 Oak Grove Drive
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Pasadena, CA 91109Saswati is a postdoctoral fellow in the Tropospheric Composition Group. She supports activities related to the validation and scientific utilization of satellite measurements of carbon dioxide from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) missions (OCO-2 and OCO-3) against independent ground-based measurements from the Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) and the COllaborative Carbon Column Observing Network (COCCON), and airborne measurements from the Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom).
Saswati Das graduated with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2022. During her Ph.D., she worked on studying the chemistry and composition of the middle atmosphere. Broadly, her research involved validating satellite data measurements and studying Sudden Stratospheric Warming events and their impact on atmospheric composition. Saswati primarily worked with data from the Solar Occultation for Ice Experiment (SOFIE) instrument on the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere(AIM) spacecraft with comparative analysis using other satellite, model, and ground station datasets. During her Ph.D., she worked on a sounding rocket mission to study the vertical profile of nitric oxide during the polar night and a balloon-based instrument named GLO (GFCR (Gas Filter Correlation Radiometry) Limb Solar Occultation) developed for a mission concept that intends to quantify the role of the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere in climate change.
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