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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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Cassini imaging of Saturn : Southern hemisphere winds and vortices
Ashwin R. Vasavada,Sarah M. Hörst,M. R. Kennedy,Andrew P. Ingersoll,Carolyn C. Porco,A. D. Del Genio,Robert A. West +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, high-resolution images of Saturn's southern hemisphere acquired by the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem between February and October 2004 are used to create maps of cloud morphology at several wavelengths, to derive zonal winds, and to characterize the distribution, frequency, size, morphology, color, behavior, and lifetime of vortices.
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Impact debris particles in Jupiter's stratosphere
TL;DR: The aftermath of the impacts of periodic comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter was studied with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on the Hubble Space Telescope, finding particle coagulation can account for the evolution of particle radius and total optical depth during the month following the impacts.
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Thermal Maps of Jupiter: Spatial Organization and Time Dependence of Stratospheric Temperatures, 1980 to 1990
Glenn S. Orton,A. James Friedson,Kevin H. Baines,Terry Z. Martin,Robert A. West,John Caldwell,Heidi B. Hammel,Jay T. Bergstralh,Michael E. Malcom,W. Golisch,D. Griep,C. Kaminski,Alan T. Tokunaga,R. Baron,Mark A. Shure +14 more
TL;DR: The spatial organization and time dependence of Jupiter's stratospheric temperatures have been measured by observing thermal emission from the 7.8-micrometer CH4 band.
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Clouds and aerosols in Saturn's atmosphere
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the photochemical and thermochemical equilibrium theories for the formation of condensate clouds and photochemical haze in Saturn's upper troposphere and stratosphere and show the relevant observations from ground-based and spacecraft instruments.
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Laboratory measurements of mineral dust scattering phase function and linear polarization
Robert A. West,Lyn R. Doose,Andrew M. Eibl,Martin G. Tomasko,Michael I. Mishchenko,Michael I. Mishchenko +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the scattering phase function and linear polarization of small mineral dust particles over the scattering angle range 15 to 170 at three wavelengths (0.47, 0.652, and 0.937 m).