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\end{equation}  where we've suppressed the constant factor involving the pressures.  Likewise, non-central encounters with a dust devil will distort the observed profile full-width/half-max $\Gamma_{\rm obs}$. Having passed through its minimum at the devil's closest approach distance, the observed pressure signal reaches half its value when the center of the devil is a radial distance from the barometer $r = \dfrac{\Gamma_{\rm obs}}{2}$, giving $\frac{1}{2} P_{\rm obs} =\dfrac{P_{\rm act}}{1 + \left( \upsilon \Gamma_{\rm obs}/\Gamma_{\rm act} \right)^2}$. We can solve this for $\Gamma_{\rm obs}$:  \begin{equation}  \frac{1}{2} P_{\rm obs} =\dfrac{P_{\rm act}}{1 + \left( \upsilon \Gamma_{\rm obs}/\Gamma_{\rm act} \right)^2}.  \end{equation}  The figure below compares the pressure signals for $b = 0$ and $b = \Gamma_{\rm act}$, for which $P(r = b) = \frac{1}{5} P_{\rm act}$ and $\left( \upsilon \Gamma_{\rm obs} \right) = 3 \Gamma_{\rm act}$.