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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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Vertical structure and size distributions of Martian aerosols from solar occultation measurements
Eric Chassefière,J.E. Blamont,Vladimir A. Krasnopolsky,Oleg Korablev,Sushil K. Atreya,Robert A. West +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the vertical structure of the Martian aerosols near the northern spring equinox was analyzed using the Phobos 2 spectrometer measurements of solar occultations close to the evening terminator, and it was assumed that the dust particles are levitated by eddy mixing.
Jovian clouds and haze
Robert A. West,Kevin H. Baines,A. James Friedson,Don Banfield,Boris Ragent,Fredric W. Taylor +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the chemical and physical properties of cloud and haze particles, their vertical and horizontal distributions, their radiative properties, and their micro-physical properties are discussed in detail.
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Saturn eddy momentum fluxes and convection : First estimates from Cassini images
Anthony D. Del Genio,J. Barbara,Joseph Ferrier,Andrew P. Ingersoll,Robert A. West,Ashwin R. Vasavada,Joseph N. Spitale,Carolyn C. Porco +7 more
TL;DR: This paper applied an automated cloud feature tracking algorithm to estimate eddy momentum fluxes in Saturn's southern hemisphere from Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem near-infrared continuum image sequences, showing that eddies supply momentum to eastward jets and remove momentum from westward jets at a rate ∼ 5 × 10 −6 m s −2.
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Spatially resolved methane band photometry of Saturn . I. Absolute reflectivity and center-to-limb variations in the 6190-, 7250-, and 8900-Å bands
Robert A. West,Martin G. Tomasko,Bradford A. Smith,Mahendra P. Wijesinghe,Lyn R. Doose,Harold J. Reitsema,Stephen M. Larson +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the absolute reflectivity in the methane bands at 6190, 7250, and 8900 A and in nearby continuum regions were measured with a 500 x 500-pixel charge-coupled device.
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Stratospheric aerosols on Jupiter from Cassini observations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors retrieved global distributions and optical properties of stratospheric aerosols on Jupiter from ground-based NIR spectra and multiple-phase-angle images from Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS).