Amita Mehta
Research Assistant Professor

Departmental Affiliation:

Geography and Environmental Systems

JCET Research Group:

Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes

GSFC Code:

613.1

Mailing Address:

Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes
Building 33, Room B424
NASA GSFC, Code 613.1
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 614-6270

Fax:

(301) 614-5492

Email:

amita.v.mehta@nasa.gov

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Biography:

Dr. Amita Mehta joined JCET as a research scientist in May 2000. Dr. Mehta obtained her M.Sc. in Physics from Gujarat University, India in 1982, and obtained her Ph.D. in Meteorology from Florida State University in 1991. After completion of her Ph. D, Dr. Mehta worked as a research scientist in the Sounder Research Team (SRT) at Goddard Space Flight Center until August 2001. Since then Dr. Mehta is working in Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission group as a research scientist, and is an affiliated assistant professor in the Department of Physics, UMBC since 2001. Dr. Mehta's interest and expertise are in satellite remote sensing of geophysical parameters and their analysis to understand climate and its variability.