Jennifer Catto on research methodology
From On the front line: finding how much rain comes from fronts | Jennifer Catto · · Monash Education
“We justified our choice of search area based on the speed that fronts move and previous studies that have shown what the structure of cloud and rainfall coming from fronts from individual events looks like.”
On , Jennifer Catto, Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer at SABRE CORP, spoke about research methodology during On the front line: finding how much rain comes from fronts | Jennifer Catto on Monash Education.
About Jennifer Catto
Jennifer Catto, a researcher in atmospheric science, gave a talk in 2015 describing her work on weather fronts and their contribution to rainfall. She stated that in the mid-latitudes, 68% of rainfall comes from fronts, a figure she said had not been previously quantified globally. Catto also noted that rainfall from fronts is twice as heavy as non-frontal rainfall, and that her research involved using automated software to identify fronts in gridded observational data. Catto discussed the challenges of scientific publishing, including responding to reviewer criticism about methodology. She said that her work has been used to evaluate climate models, with the goal of understanding how rainfall patterns related to fronts may change in the future. She also mentioned a scientific consensus in Australia that declining rainfall in Perth was due to fewer fronts, but noted that a colleague had found no decline in the number of fronts over the past 30 years.