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Michael Mann, a professor of atmospheric science at Penn State University, tells Inverse increased analysis is only the beginning.

“This was an extremely terrible scenario for a landfalling hurricane,” said Anthony Didlake Jr., an assistant professor of meteorology at Penn State.

Our atmosphere behaves like a fluid, changing its flow and direction when it runs into an obstacle.

Using a new approach developed at Penn State’s Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, researchers were better able to predict models for forecasting Hurricane Harvey.

Fuqing Zhang, distinguished professor of meteorology in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State, died Friday, July 19.