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The fact that larger, faster dust devils cover more area means that they are more likely to be recovered by fixed station surveys. recovered.  We can quantify the recovery probability $f$ by taking the ratio of track areas for a given dust devil to the largest area for a dust devil, $A_{\rm max}$: \begin{equation}  \label{eqn:recovery_bias}  f = \dfrac{A(\Gamma_{\rm act}, P_{\rm act})}{A_{\rm max}} = A_{\rm max}^{-1}\ \Gamma_{\rm act} \sqrt{\dfrac{P_{\rm act} - P_{\rm min}}{P_{\rm min}}} \upsilon\ \tau.