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Robert A. West
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 182
Citations - 7516
Robert A. West is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Titan (rocket family) & Jupiter. The author has an hindex of 46, co-authored 182 publications receiving 7143 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert A. West include University of Colorado Boulder & United States Geological Survey.
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Vortices in Saturn's Northern Hemisphere (2008-2015) Observed by Cassini ISS.
Harold J. Trammell,Liming Li,Xun Jiang,Yefeng Pan,Mark A. Smith,Edgar A. Bering,Sarah M. Hörst,Ashwin R. Vasavada,Andrew P. Ingersoll,Michael Janssen,Robert A. West,Carolyn Porco,Cheng Li,Amy Simon,Kevin H. Baines +14 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used observations from the Imaging Science Subsystem on Cassini to create maps of Saturn's Northern Hemisphere (NH) from 2008 to 2015, a time period including a seasonal transition (i.e., Spring Equinox in 2009) and the 2010 giant storm.
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Saturn's Seasonal Atmosphere at Northern Summer Solstice
Leigh Fletcher,Lawrence A. Sromovsky,V. Hue,Julianne I. Moses,S. Guerlet,Robert A. West,Tommi Koskinen +6 more
TL;DR: F Fletcher et al. as discussed by the authors explored the changing global temperatures, composition, and aerosol properties between northern spring and summer solstice (2015-2017), extending their previous review of remote sensing investigations (2004-14) to the grand finale.
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Atmospheres of the Giant Planets
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the salient features of the giant planet atmospheres, including their chemistry, clouds and colors, dynamics, and processes in the high atmosphere such as the aurora.
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Supersaturation on Pluto and elsewhere
Pascal Rannou,Robert A. West +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the laws of cloud nucleation to evaluate the supersaturation which is needed to trigger condensation, and they found that HCN and H2O can supersaturate by factor from several thousand to several billions depending on the type of nucleation which is used.
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Voyager photopolarimeter observations of Saturn and Titan
Robert A. West,Charles W. Hord,Karen E. Simmons,H. Hart,Larry W. Esposito,Arthur L. Lane,R. B. Pomphrey,R.B. Morris,Makiko Sato,D. L. Coffeen +9 more
TL;DR: The Voyager 2 photopolarimeter experiment observed the intensity and polarization of scattered sunlight from the atmospheres of Saturn and Titan in the near UV at 2640 A and near IR at 7500 A as mentioned in this paper.