Odor plume visualization (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Odor plume visualization

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A plot of experimentally measured data for a laboratory-generated odor plume (blue/purple) carried by a moving wind field (rainbow arrows), captured at a single instant in time. Such measured datasets will allow researchers to analyze odor signal transformations in real-world conditions.

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