David Kappel

1.4k total citations
48 papers, 599 citations indexed

About

David Kappel is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, David Kappel has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 599 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 19 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in David Kappel's work include Planetary Science and Exploration (42 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (29 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (14 papers). David Kappel is often cited by papers focused on Planetary Science and Exploration (42 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (29 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (14 papers). David Kappel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and Italy. David Kappel's co-authors include G. Arnold, Rainer Haus, P. Drossart, G. Piccioni, J. Helbert, Alessandro Maturilli, G. Filacchione, M. D. Dyar, A. Raponi and M. Ciarniello and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Geophysical Research Letters and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

David Kappel

45 papers receiving 569 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Kappel Germany 16 542 186 143 131 41 48 599
C. C. C. Tsang United States 9 621 1.1× 298 1.6× 134 0.9× 99 0.8× 52 1.3× 14 704
P. Drossart France 14 535 1.0× 207 1.1× 71 0.5× 60 0.5× 32 0.8× 15 578
J. Rosenqvist France 15 574 1.1× 195 1.0× 119 0.8× 109 0.8× 47 1.1× 29 630
Thomas Widemann France 16 526 1.0× 264 1.4× 121 0.8× 92 0.7× 11 0.3× 49 603
Yves Langevin France 12 535 1.0× 70 0.4× 37 0.3× 112 0.9× 37 0.9× 17 586
Richard Moissl Germany 12 598 1.1× 135 0.7× 66 0.5× 93 0.7× 28 0.7× 27 625
Lucio Baggio France 13 360 0.7× 116 0.6× 88 0.6× 75 0.6× 14 0.3× 35 429
D. V. Titov Netherlands 18 805 1.5× 258 1.4× 161 1.1× 176 1.3× 27 0.7× 48 889
Séverine Perrier France 11 768 1.4× 215 1.2× 130 0.9× 229 1.7× 21 0.5× 13 855
D. J. Diner United States 11 405 0.7× 181 1.0× 190 1.3× 109 0.8× 22 0.5× 23 559

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Kappel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Kappel

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All Works

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Ciarniello, M., M. Fulle, A. Raponi, et al.. (2022). Macro and micro structures of pebble-made cometary nuclei reconciled by seasonal evolution. Nature Astronomy. 6(5). 546–553. 29 indexed citations
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Ciarniello, M., L. V. Moroz, Olivier Poch, et al.. (2021). VIS-IR Spectroscopy of Mixtures of Water Ice, Organic Matter, and Opaque Mineral in Support of Small Body Remote Sensing Observations. Minerals. 11(11). 1222–1222. 6 indexed citations
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Mennella, V., M. Ciarniello, A. Raponi, et al.. (2020). Hydroxylated Mg-rich Amorphous Silicates: A New Component of the 3.2 μm Absorption Band of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 897(2). L37–L37. 11 indexed citations
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Dyar, M. D., J. Helbert, Alessandro Maturilli, Nils Müller, & David Kappel. (2020). Probing Venus Surface Iron Contents With Six‐Band Visible Near‐Infrared Spectroscopy From Orbit. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(23). 24 indexed citations
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Marschall, Raphael, Yuri Skorov, Vladimir Zakharov, et al.. (2020). Cometary Comae-Surface Links. Space Science Reviews. 216(8). 130–130. 13 indexed citations
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Helbert, J., Darby Dyar, Ingo Walter, et al.. (2019). The Venus Emissivity Mapper - Obtaining Global Mineralogy of Venus from Orbit on the ESA EnVision and NASA VERITAS Missions to Venus. elib (German Aerospace Center). 2046.
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Kappel, David, Katharina A. Otto, N. Oklay, et al.. (2018). Studying surface morphologies of comet 67P/C-G using discrete element simulations. elib (German Aerospace Center).
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Rousseau, Batiste, S. Érard, Pierre Beck, et al.. (2017). Laboratory simulations of the Vis-NIR spectra of comet 67P using sub-µm sized cosmochemical analogues. Icarus. 306. 306–318. 20 indexed citations
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Rinaldi, G., D. Bockelée–Morvan, C. Leyrat, et al.. (2016). The outburst sequence of 67/P on 2015 September 13 as seen by VIRTIS/Rosetta. elib (German Aerospace Center). 48. 1 indexed citations
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Helbert, J., Emmanuel Marcq, Thomas Widemann, et al.. (2016). The Venus Emissivity Mapper. elib (German Aerospace Center). 1 indexed citations
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Moroz, L. V., Kathrin Markus, G. Arnold, et al.. (2016). Reflectance spectroscopy of natural organic solids, iron sulfides and their mixtures as refractory analogues for Rosetta/VIRTIS' surface composition analysis of 67P/CG. elib (German Aerospace Center). 1 indexed citations
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Helbert, J., Ingo Walter, Thomas Widemann, et al.. (2016). The Venus Emissivity Mapper (VEM) concept. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9973. 99730R–99730R. 12 indexed citations
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Arnold, Gabriele, et al.. (2015). Retrieval and study of near-infrared surface emissivity maps of Themis Regio on Venus with VIRTIS-M (Venus Express). elib (German Aerospace Center). 1 indexed citations
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Haus, Rainer, David Kappel, & G. Arnold. (2014). Atmospheric thermal structure and cloud features of Venus as retrieved from VIRTIS/VEX measurements. elib (German Aerospace Center). 9. 1 indexed citations
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Haus, Rainer, David Kappel, & G. Arnold. (2013). Investigation of Venus' atmospheric thermal structure and cloud features over the northern nightside hemisphere applying self-consistent retrieval procedures. elib (German Aerospace Center). 1 indexed citations
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Kappel, David, Gabriele Arnold, & Rainer Haus. (2012). Sensitivity of Venus surface emissivity retrieval to model variations of CO2 opacity, cloud features, and deep atmosphere temperature field. elib (German Aerospace Center). 39. 876. 2 indexed citations
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Kappel, David, Gabriele Arnold, & Rainer Haus. (2012). Retrieval of Surface Emissivity in a Venus Coordinate Patch as Parameter Common to Repeated Measurements by VIRTIS/VEX. elib (German Aerospace Center). 9708. 2 indexed citations
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Kappel, David, Gabriele Arnold, & Rainer Haus. (2010). Multispectrum retrieval techniques applied to Venus deepatmosphere and surface problems. elib (German Aerospace Center). 38. 4. 2 indexed citations
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Kappel, David, G. Arnold, Rainer Haus, G. Piccioni, & P. Drossart. (2010). Results from Multispectrum Retrieval of VIRTIS-M-IR Measurements of Venus' Nightside. elib (German Aerospace Center). 390. 3 indexed citations

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