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  1. C. E. Holloway, J.-F. Gu, and R. S. Plant. Connections Between Sub-Cloud Coherent Updrafts and the Life Cycle of Maritime Shallow Cumulus Clouds in Large Eddy Simulation, 2025. Talk at: EGU General Assembly 2025, 27 April - 2 May, Vienna.
  2. H. M. Christensen, Z. Zhang, M. R. Muetzelfeldt, R. S. Plant, T. Woollings, Z. Feng, M. W. Moncrieff, A. J. Stirling, W. J. Tennant, M. A. Whitall, G. Miller, P. Ukkonen, P. Stier, J. Berner, T. Palmer, and L. Zanna. Stochastic Parametrisation: from theory to practice via data, 2024. Invited talk at: XCS seminar series, October, University of Exeter.
  3. J.-F. Gu, R. S. Plant, C. Holloway, and P. A. Clark. Moist Halo Region Around Shallow Cumulus Clouds in Large Eddy Simulations, 2024. Talk at: AOGS 20th Annual Meeting, Pyeongchang, South Korea, 23-28 June.
  4. J.-F. Gu, R. S. Plant, C. E. Holloway, and P. A. Clark. The Moist Halo Region Around Shallow Cumulus Clouds in Large Eddy Simulations, 2024. Talk at: AGU Fall Meeting, 9-13 December, Washington DC, USA.
  5. J.-F. Gu, R. S. Plant, and C. E. Hollway. Connections Between Sub-cloud Coherent Updrafts and the Life Cycle of Maritime Shallow Cumulus Clouds in Large Eddy Simulation, 2024. Talk at: Sixth National Mesoscale Meteorology Forum, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong, China, 7-10 November.
  6. J.-F. Gu, R. S. Plant, C. E. Hollway, and P. A. Clark. Moist Halo Region Around Shallow Cumulus Clouds in Large Eddy Simulations, 2024. Talk at: 36th AMS conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Long Beach, California, 6-10 May.
  7. Q. Luo, M. Brettle, and R. S. Plant. Importance of Wind Sensor Averaging Times for Predicting Short-Range Dispersal, 2024. Talk at: Meteorological Observing Systems Mini Conference, 12 Septembe, University of Reading.
  8. M. R. Muetzelfeldt, R. S. Plant, H. Christensen, Z. Zhang, T. Woollings, Z. Feng, and P. Li. Environmental Conditions Affecting Global Mesoscale Convective System Occurrence, 2024. Invited talk at: AOGS 20th Annual Meeting, Pyeongchang, South Korea, 23-28 June.
  9. R. S. Plant, M. R. Muetzelfeldt, Z. Zhang, H. M. Christensen, T. Woollings, C.-C. Chen, Z. Feng, P. Li, M. W. Moncrieff, A. J. Stirling, and M. A. Whitall. Parameterization of Mesoscale Convective Systems, 2024. Invited talk at: 2nd Annual UFS Physics Workshop, 9-12 July, 2024, Norman, Oklahoma.
  10. Z. Zhang, H. M. Christensen, M. R. Muetzelfeldt, T. Woollings, R. S. Plant, A. J. Stirling, M. A. Whitall, M. W. Moncrieff, C.-C. Chen, and Z. Feng. The Gordian Knot in Weather and Climate Modeling: Representing convective organization in the model grey zone, 2024. Talk at: PNNL seminar, January, Richland, Washington, USA.
  11. G. A. Efstathiou and R. S. Plant. A Dynamic Blending Scheme for Scale-Dependent Turbulent Mixing at Grey-Zone Resolutions, 2023. Talk at: 24th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, AMS Annual Meeting, 8-12 January, Denver, USA.
  12. J.-F. Gu, R. S. Plant, C. Holloway, and M. Muetzelfeldt. Pressure Drag for Shallow Cumulus Clouds: From Thermals to the Cloud Ensemble, 2023. Talk at: AOGS 20th Annual Meeting, Singapore, 30 July - 4 August.
  13. C. E. Holloway, M. C. Johnston, and R. S. Plant. Sensible Heat Fluxes Control Cloud Trail Strength, 2023. Talk at: 3rd Workshop on Cloud Organisation and Precipitation Extremes, ICTP, Trieste, 4-8 September.
  14. M. R. Muetzelfeldt, R. S. Plant, and H. C. Christensen. Environmental Precursors to Mesoscale Convective Systems, 2023. Talk at: EGU General Assembly 2023, 23-28 April, Vienna.
  15. M. R. Muetzelfeldt, R. S. Plant, H. C. Christensen, Z. Zhang, and T. Woollings. Environmental Conditions Affecting MCS Occurence, 2023. Invited talk at: Met Office, 22 November, Exeter.
  16. M. R. Muetzelfeldt, R. S. Plant, Z. Zhang, T. Woollings, and H. C. Christensen. Environmental Conditions Affecting MCS Occurrence and their Importance for MCS Parametrization, 2023. Talk at: NCAR seminar, 25 July, Boulder.
  17. M. R. Muetzelfeldt, Z. Zhang, R. S. Plant, T. Woollings, and H. C. Christensen. Towards a probabilistic parametrisation of Mesoscale Convective Systems, 2023. Talk at: IUGG General Assembly 2023, 11-20 July, Berlin.
  18. P. T. Mulovhedzi, R. S. Plant, J. McGregor, M.-J. Bopape, and T. Ndarana. Assessing the scale awareness of the Conformal Cubic Atmospheric Model convection scheme for a heavy rainfall event, 2023. Talk at: 37th Annual Conference of the South African Society for Atmospheric Sciences, 30 October - 3 November, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
  19. R. S. Plant. Convection and parameterization, 2023. Talk at: NCAS Climate Modelling Summer School, 10-22 September, Cambridge.
  20. R. S. Plant, H. Christensen, M. R. Muetzelfeldt, T. Woollings, and Z. Zhang. Towards a Stochastic Parameterization of Unresolved MCS Impacts on Large Scales, 2023. Invited talk at: AOGS 20th Annual Meeting, Singapore, 30 July - 4 August.
  21. A. Power, R. S. Plant, P. A. Clark, G. A. Efstathiou, and T. R. Jones. Dynamically Calculating Mixing Lengths in Shallow Cumulus Convection, 2023. Royal Meteorological Society Student Conference, Reading, UK, 4-5 July.
  22. S. Sherwood, R. S. Plant T. Raupach, C. L. Daleu, and Y.-L. Hwong. CRM and LES Estimates of Tangent Linear Convective Responses, 2023. Talk at: AOGS 20th Annual Meeting, Singapore, 30 July - 4 August.
  23. C. L. Daleu, R. S. Plant, A. J. Stirling, M. Whitall, and S. Lavender. Update on CAPE closure, 2022. Talk at: ParaCon Plenary Meeting, 19-20 December, online.
  24. J.-F. Gu, R. S. Plant, C. E. Holloway, and P. A. Clark. Halo Size Around Shallow Cumulus Clouds in the Large Eddy simulations, 2022. Talk at: EGU General Assembly 2022, 23-27 May, Vienna, Austria.
  25. J.-F. Gu, R. S. Plant, C. E. Holloway, and P. A. Clark. Understanding the Entrainment and Detrainment Processes in Shallow Cumulus Clouds using Lagrangian Trajectories, 2022. Talk at: 35th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 9-13, New Orleans, LA, USA.
  26. R. S. Plant. Beyond $I_\mathrmorg$: Advertisment for a suite of more robust organization measures, 2022. Talk at: ParaCon Plenary Meeting, 20-21 June, Met Office, Exeter.
  27. R. S. Plant, H. Christensen, M. R. Muetzelfeldt, Z. Zhang, M. W. Moncrieff, Z. Feng, R. Leung, A. J. Stirling, K. Williams, W. J. Tennant, and C. Piccolo. Introduction to MCS:PRIME, 2022. Talk at: ParaCon Plenary Meeting, 20-21 June, Met Office, Exeter.
  28. R. S. Plant and P. A. Clark. Representing uncertainties due to modest numbers of coherent sub-grid structures, 2022. ECMWF Workshop on Model Uncertainty, Reading, UK, 9-12 May 2022.
  29. A. Power, R. S. Plant, P. A. Clark, and G. A. Efstathiou. Modelling convective turbulence in shallow cumulus convection, 2022. Talk at: ParaCon Plenary Meeting, 19-20 December, online.
  30. L. P Blunn, O. Coceal, R. S. Plant, J. F. Barlow, H. W. Lean, and S. Bohnenstengel. High-Resolution Dispersion Modelling in the Convective Boundary Layer, 2021. Invited talk at: Urban Fluid Mechanics Special Interest Group Meeting: Heterogeneity, unsteadiness and uncertainty in urban environments, 29 March, online.
  31. C. L. Daleu and R. S. Plant. Design for representing shear-induced convection organiztion in CoMorph, 2021. Talk at: ParaCon Plenary Meeting, 29 June - 1 July, online.
  32. C. L. Daleu, R. S. Plant, S. J. Woolnough, A. Stirling, and N. Harvey. Memory properties in cloud-resolving simulations of the diurnal cycle of deep convection, 2021. Talk at: EGU General Assembly 2021, 19-30 April, online.
  33. C. L. Daleu, R. S. Plant, S. J. Woolnough, A. Stirling, and N. Harvey. Memory properties in cloud-resolving simulations of the diurnal cycle of deep convection, 2021. Talk at: Conference on Improvement and Calibration of Clouds in Models, 12-16 April, Meteo-France, Toulouse, France.
  34. J.-F. Gu, R. S. Plant, and C. E. Holloway. Can Simplified Cloud Structures Capture Vertical Fluxes?, 2021. Talk at: 34th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology Virtual Meeting, American Meteorological Society Virtual Meeting 10-14 May.
  35. J.-F. Gu, R. S. Plant, C. E. Holloway, T. R. Jones, A. Stirling, P. A. Clark, and S. J. Woolnough. The Key Components of Convection for Vertical Transport of Heat and Moisture: A Core-cloak Conceptual Model, 2021. Talk at: 34th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology Virtual Meeting, American Meteorological Society Virtual Meeting 10-14 May.
  36. J.-F. Gu, R. S. Plant, C. E. Holloway, and M. Muetzelfeldt. Pressure drag for shallow cumulus clouds: from thermals to the cloud ensemble, 2021. Talk at: EGU General Assembly 2021, 19-30 April, online.
  37. J.-F. Gu, R. S. Plant, C. E. Holloway, and M. Muetzelfeldt. Pressure Drag for Shallow Cumulus Clouds: From Thermals to the Cloud Ensemble, 2021. Talk at: Conference on Improvement and Calibration of Clouds in Models, 12-16 April, Meteo-France, Toulouse, France.
  38. S. Hagos, J. Chen, K. Barber, K. Sakaguchi, Z. Feng, H. Xiao, and R. S. Plant. A machine learning assisted stochastic cloud population model as a parameterization of cumulus convection, 2021. Talk at: Conference on Improvement and Calibration of Clouds in Models, 12-16 April, Meteo-France, Toulouse, France.
  39. A. Hermoso, V. Homar, and R. S. Plant. Improving heavy precipitation forecasting over the western Mediterranean: Benefits of stochastic techniques for model error sampling, 2021. Talk at: EGU General Assembly 2021, 19-30 April, online.
  40. C. E. Holloway, J.-F. Gu, R. S. Plant, and T. R. Jones. Composited structure of shallow cumulus clouds, 2021. Talk at: EGU General Assembly 2021, 19-30 April, online.
  41. Y.-L. Hwong, S. Song, S. Sherwood, A. Stirling, C. Rio, R. Roehrig, C. L. Daleu, R. S. Plant, D. Fuchs, P. Maher, and L. Touze-Peiffer. Characterising Convection Schemes Using Their Linearised Responses to Convective Tendency Perturbations, 2021. Talk at: Conference on Improvement and Calibration of Clouds in Models, 12-16 April, Meteo-France, Toulouse, France.
  42. M. C. Johnston, C. E. Holloway, and R. S. Plant. Role of Wind Speed in Organizing Shallow Convection on Small Islands in Idealized Simulations, 2021. Talk at: 34th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology Virtual Meeting, American Meteorological Society Virtual Meeting 10-14 May.
  43. R. S. Plant. Representing Convection in Numerical Weather Prediction Models and its Implications, 2021. Invited talk at: Royal Met Soc Meteorological Masterclass Series, 10 March.
  44. D. Shipley, P. A. Clark, R. S. Plant, and H. Weller. Capturing linear instability in two-fluid convection, 2021. Talk at: ParaCon Plenary Meeting, 13-14 December, Leeds.
  45. L. P Blunn, O. Coceal, R. S. Plant, J. F. Barlow, H. W. Lean, S. Bohnenstengel, and N. Nazarian. Neighbourhood-scale Urban Dispersion Modelling Using a Canopy Approach, 2020. Talk at: 21st Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology, 12-16 January, Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston, USA.
  46. C. L. Daleu, R. S. Plant, A. J. Stirling, M. Whitall, and S. Lavender. Characterising convective schemes by their linearised responses, 2020. Talk at: ParaCon Plenary Meeting, 8-10 July, Exeter.
  47. L. P Blunn, O. Coceal, R. S. Plant, J. F. Barlow, H. W. Lean, S. Bohnenstengel, and N. Nazarian. Neighbourhood-scale Urban Dispersion Modelling Using a Canopy Approach, 2019. Talk at: 2019 NCAS Air Quality Symposium, 27-28 November, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
  48. C. L. Daleu, N. Harvey, R. S. Plant, and S. J. Woolonough. Idealized modelling of the diurnal cycle of deep convection using the new Met Office Cloud-Resolving Model (MONC), 2019. Talk at: UM User Workshop 2019, 17-21 June, Met Office, Exeter.
  49. C. L. Daleu, N. Harvey, R. S. Plant, and S. J. Woolonough. The simulation of the diurnal cycle of deep convection over land in a new Met Office Cloud-Resolving model, 2019. Talk at: Convection Parametrization: Progress and Challenges 2019, 15-19 July, Met Office, Exeter.
  50. S. L. Gray and R. S. Plant. Workshop Summary and Thanks, 2019. Talk at at: 5th OpenIFS User Workshop, Reading, 17-21 June.
  51. J.-F. Gu, R. S. Plant, and C. E Holloway. Parameterizing the sub-grid vertical fluxes with composited distributions of variables within the cloud, 2019. Talk at: ParaCon Plenary Meeting, 15-16 May, Leeds.
  52. J.-F. Gu, R. S. Plant, C. E. Holloway, T. R. Jones, A. Stirling, P. A. Clark, and S. J. Woolnough. Evaluation of bulk mass flux formulation using large-eddy simulations, 2019. Talk at: Nanjing University Seminar, 25 October, Nanjing, China.
  53. J.-F. Gu, R. S. Plant, C. E. Holloway, T. R. Jones, A. Stirling, P. A. Clark, S. J. Woolnough, and T. Webb. Key components of Convection for Vertical Transport of Heat and Moisture: A Core-cloak Conceptual Model, 2019. Talk at: Convection Parametrization: Progress and Challenges 2019, 15-19 July, Met Office, Exeter.
  54. S. Hagos, Z. Feng, R. A. Houze Jr, R. S. Plant, and A. Protat. A Machine Learning Assisted Development of a Model for the Population Dynamics of Clouds, 2019. Talk at: EGU General Assembly, 7-12 April 2019, Vienna, Austria.
  55. S. Hagos, Z. Feng, R. A. Houze Jr, R. S. Plant, and A. Protat. A Stochastic Transition Matrix Approach to Modeling of the Population Dynamics of Clouds, 2019. Talk at: 2019 AMS Annual Meeting, 6-10 January, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
  56. M. C. Johnston, C. E. Holloway, and R. S. Plant. Cloud Trails: Are the clouds important?, 2019. Talk at: Convection Parametrization: Progress and Challenges 2019, 15-19 July, Met Office, Exeter.
  57. T. R. Jones, P. A. Clark, R. S. Plant, C. E. Holloway, and S. J. Woolnough. Radiative Convective Equilibrium Across the Gray Zone, 2019. Talk at: Convection Parametrization: Progress and Challenges 2019, 15-19 July, Met Office, Exeter.
  58. M. R. Muetzelfeldt, R. S. Plant, P. A. Clark, and A. Stirling. Using a cloud-resolving model to diagnose the effects of different wind shear profiles on deep convective cloud fields, 2019. Talk at: Convection Parametrization: Progress and Challenges 2019, 15-19 July, Met Office, Exeter.
  59. R. S. Plant, J.-F. Gu, T. R. Jones, C. E. Holloway, and the ParaCon team. Convective parameterization development from cloud resolving simulations of convective equilibrium: what can we still learn?, 2019. Invited talk at: EGU General Assembly, 7-12 April 2019, Vienna, Austria.
  60. R. S. Plant, A. Stirling, P. A. Clark, J. Thuburn, A. Ross, M. Herzog, H. Weller, and the ParaCon Team. The ParaCon programme: New approaches for modelling convection, 2019. Invited talk at: Weather and Climate Modelling Special Interest Group Seminar, Centre for High Performance Computing Conference 2019, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1-5 December.
  61. A. Stirling, P. A. Clark, R. S. Plant, D. J. Parker, M. Herzog, and J. Thuburn. ParaCon's parametrisation of convection at kilometre scales, 2019. Talk at: UCP2019 Understanding Clouds and Precipitation, Berlin, 25 February - 1 March.
  62. M. A. W. Whittall, P. Bechtold, A. Shimikobe, E. Dunne, R. Roehrig, D. Paquin-Ricard, J.-W. Bao, L. Gerard, R. S. Plant, J. Thuburn, H. E. Weller, D. Shipley, and Y. Cohen. The “nitty gritty” of convection scheme development, 2019. Talk at: Convection Parametrization: Progress and Challenges 2019, 15-19 July, Met Office, Exeter.
  63. L. P. Blunn, O. Coceal, R. S. Plant, J. F. Barlow, S. Bohnenstengel, and H. W. Lean. High-Resolution Modelling of the Boundary Layer and Implications For Urban Air Quality Forecasting, 2018. Talk at: RMetS/NCAS Atmospheric Science Conference: Weather, Climate and Air Quality, 3-4 July, University of York.
  64. M.-J. Bopape, F. Engelbrecht, B. Abiodun, A. Beraki, J. McGregor, T. Ndarana, L. Ntsangwane, R. S. Plant, D. Randall, H. Rautenbach, H. Sithole, M. Sovara, and J. Witi. Weather and Climate Numerical Models Development Programme in South Africa, 2018. Talk at: 34th Annual Conference of the South African Society for Atmospheric Sciences, 20-21 September, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
  65. C. L. Daleu, N. Harvey, R. S. Plant, and S. J. Woolnough. Diurnal Cycle of Deep Convection Using MONC, 2018. Talk at: ParaCon Plenary Meeting, December, Met Office, Exeter.
  66. J.-F. Gu, R. S. Plant, and C. E Holloway. A composite study of cloud structures, 2018. Talk at: ParaCon Plenary Meeting, 3-4 December, Met Office, Exeter.
  67. S. Hagos, Z. Feng, R. S. Plant, R. A. Houze Jr, and A. Protat. A Stochastic Framework for Modeling the Population Dynamics of Convective Clouds, 2018. Talk at: 2nd Global Atmospheric System Studies (GASS) Conference, 26 February - 2 March, Lorne, Victoria, Australia.
  68. T. R. Jones, P. A. Clark, R. S. Plant, C. E. Holloway, and S. J. Woolnough. Radiative Convective Equilibrium Across the Gray Zone, 2018. Talk at: AGU Fall Meeting, 10-14 December, Washington, USA.
  69. M. Muetzelfeldt, R. S. Plant, P. A. Clark, and A. J. Stirling. A climatology of tropical wind shear produced by clustering wind profiles from a climate model, 2018. Talk at: ParaCon Plenary Meeting, 3-4 December, Met Office, Exeter.
  70. R. S. Plant. Sources of heterogeneity for convection and some implications, 2018. Invited talk at: Boundary-layer moist-convection coupling workshop, 5-6 March, Leeds University.
  71. C. L. Daleu, N. Harvey, R. S. Plant, and S. J. Woolnough. The Diurnal Cycle in MONC, 2017. Talk at: ParaCon Plenary Meeting, December, Exeter.
  72. G. A. Efstathiou, R. S. Plant, M. M. Bopape, and R. J. Beare. Dynamic sub-grid modelling of an evolving CBL at greyzone resolutions, 2017. Talk at: Shedding light on the greyzone, ECMWF Workshop, 13-16 November, ECMWF, Reading.
  73. D. L. A. Flack, P. A. Clark, S. L. Gray, R. S. Plant, C. E. Halliwell, H. W. Lean, and N. M. Roberts. Convective-Scale Perturbation Growth Across a Spectrum of Convective Cases, 2017. Talk at: 17th AMS Conference on Mesoscale Processes, 23-27 July, San Diego.
  74. S. Hagos, Z. Feng, R. S. Plant, R. A. Houze Jr, and H. Xiao. Development of stochastic models of convective cloud populations, 2017. Talk at: The Future of Cumulus Parametrization, 10-14 July 2017, TU Delft, Netherlands.
  75. R. S. Plant. Implementing stochastic parameterizations: Noise we want and noise we don't, 2017. Invited talk at: The Future of Cumulus Parametrization, 10-14 July 2017, TU Delft, Netherlands.
  76. R. S. Plant. Stochastic aspects of convection-permitting models, 2017. Invited talk at: Scaling Cascades in Complex Systems 2017, 27-29 March, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany.
  77. R. S. Plant, C. Daleu, and S. J. Woolnough. Parameterizing large-scale circulations based on the weak temperature gradient approximation, 2017. Talk at: GAFD Seminar, 13 March, Exeter University.
  78. R. S. Plant, C. Daleu, and S. J. Woolnough. Parameterizing large-scale circulations based on the weak temperature gradient approximation, 2017. Talk at: Convection Seminar, 23 May, Leeds University.
  79. M.-J. Bopape, O. Coceal, and R. S. Plant. A Comparison of LES Sub-grid Turbulence Models at Different Grid Resolutions in a Convective BL, 2016. Talk at: 22nd AMS Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 20-24 June 2016, Salt Lake City, USA.
  80. M.-J. Bopape, F. A. Engelbecht, T. Ndarana, R. S. Plant, O. Coceal, and M. Thatcher. Simulating the Earth System with filtered Navier Stokes Equations, 2016. Invited talk at: 10th CHPC National Meeting, 5-9 December, East London ICC, South Africa.
  81. M.-J. Bopape, R. S. Plant, and O. Coceal. Simulating the convective boundary layer with a dynamic Smagorinsky model, 2016. Talk at: 32nd Annual Conference of the South African Society for Atmospheric Sciences, 31 October - 1 November, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
  82. M.-J. Bopape, R. S. Plant, and O. Coceal. Simulations of a convective boundary layer with a dynamic Smagorinsky scheme, 2016. Talk at: 31st annual meeting of the Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE), 26-29 April, CSIR, South Africa.
  83. C. Daleu, R. S. Plant, S. J. Woolnough, A. Sobel, S. Wang, S. Sessions, M. Herman, G. Bellon, F. Ferry, P. Peyrille, A. Cheng, P. Siebesma, B. Van Ulft, and D. Kim. Intercomparison of methods of coupling between convection and large-scale circulation, 2016. Talk at: Understanding Clouds and Precipitation Conference, HD(CP)2, 15-19 February, Berlin.
  84. A. Deluca, R. S. Plant, C. E. Holloway, and H. Kantz. Self-organised convection in a cloud-resolving model: realistic and idealistic simulations, 2016. Talk at: Centre for Dynamics Workshop, Technische Universitat, Dresden.
  85. D. L. A. Flack, R. S. Plant, S. L. Gray, H. W. Lean, and G. C. Craig. Model physics perturbations in different convective regimes, 2016. Talk at: Early-Career Researchers' FFIR Meeting, January 2016, Hull.
  86. D. L. A. Flack, R. S. Plant, S. L. Gray, H. W. Lean, and G. C. Craig. Model physics perturbations in different convective regimes, 2016. Talk at: FRANC Annual Science Meeting, 22 June 2016, Reading.
  87. D. L. A. Flack, R. S. Plant, S. L. Gray, H. W. Lean, and G. C. Craig. Model physics perturbations in different convective regimes, 2016. Talk at: Ludwig Maximilian University seminar, 16 June 2016, Munich, Germany.
  88. D. L. A. Flack, R. S. Plant, S. L. Gray, H. W. Lean, and G. C. Craig. Model physics perturbations in different convective regimes, 2016. Talk at: Departmental seminar, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading.
  89. R. S. Plant. Regime transitions in a parameterized world: where are/should the decisions be taken?, 2016. Talk at: US DoE ASR Workshop on the Representation of Convection in Next-Generation Climate Models, 3-5 February, PNNL, Richland, Washington, USA.
  90. R. S. Plant, E. Carter, P. Clark, H. Guy, C. Haliwell, K. E. Hanley, R. J. Hogan, H. W. Lean, T. H. M. Stein, and M. Weeks. Characteristics of precipitating convection in the UM at $Δ x \approx$200m-2km, 2016. Talk at: RMetS NCAS Conference, 6-8 July 2016, Manchester.
  91. T. Stein, R. J. Hogan, K. E. Hanley, P. A. Clark, C. Halliwell, H. W. Lean, J . Nicol, and R. S. Plant. The DYMECS project: A statistical approach for the evaluation of convective storms in high-resolution NWP models, 2016. Talk at: EGU General Assembly, 18-22 April 2016, Vienna, Austria.
  92. M.-J. Bopape, R. S. Plant, and O. Coceal. Resolution dependence of the temperature flux in the convective boundary layer, 2015. Talk at: NCAS Science Conference 2015, 16-17 July, York.
  93. M.-J. Bopape, R. S. Plant, and O. Coceal. Resolution dependence of the temperature flux in the convective boundary layer, 2015. Talk at: NCAS Early Career Research Forum 2015, 6 May, Reading.
  94. M.-J. Bopape, R. S. Plant, O. Coceal, G. Efstathiou, R. J. Beare, A. P. Lock, and H. W. Lean. Simulations of the boundary layer with a dynamic Smagorinsky model, 2015. Talk at: Departmental seminar, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading.
  95. C. Daleu, R. S. Plant, S. J. Woolnough, A. Sobel, S. Wang, S. Sessions, M. Herman, G. Bellon, F. Ferry, P. Peyrille, A. Cheng, P. Siebesma, B. Van Ulft, and D. Kim. Intercomparison of methods of coupling between convection and large-scale circulation, 2015. Talk at: Departmental seminar, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading.
  96. C. Daleu, R. S. Plant, S. J. Woolnough, A. Sobel, S. Wang, S. Sessions, M. Herman, G. Bellon, F. Ferry, P. Peyrille, A. Cheng, P. Siebesma, B. Van Ulft, and D. Kim. Intercomparison of methods of coupling between convection and large-scale circulation, 2015. Talk at: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, September.
  97. C. Daleu, R. S. Plant, S. J. Woolnough, A. Sobel, S. Wang, S. Sessions, M. Herman, G. Bellon, F. Ferry, P. Peyrille, A. Cheng, P. Siebesma, B. Van Ulft, and D. Kim. Intercomparison of methods of coupling between convection and large-scale circulation, 2015. Talk at: NCAS Science Conference 2015, 16-17 July, York.
  98. S. Dey, R. S. Plant, N. Roberts, and S. Migliorini. A look at the spatial characteristics of convective storms in high resolution ensembles, 2015. Talk at: Departmental Seminar, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading.
  99. S. Dey, R. S. Plant, N. Roberts, and S. Migliorini. A new method for the characterization and verification of local spatial predictability for convective-scale ensembles, 2015. Talk at: 27th Conference On Weather Analysis And Forecasting / 23rd Conference On Numerical Weather Prediction, American Meteorological Society, 28 June - 3 July, Chicago, USA.
  100. D. L. A. Flack, R. S. Plant, S. L. Gray, H. W. Lean, and G. C. Craig. Characterising Convective Regimes over the UK, 2015. FRANC Annual Meeting, Met Office, Exeter, UK, 27 April 2015.
  101. J. Nicol, R. J. Hogan, T. H. M. Stein, R. J. Hogan, R. S. Plant, P. A. Clark, C. Haliwell, K. E. Hanley, H. W. Lean, M. Clarke, A. Doo, and D. Ladd. DYMECS: A statistical evaluation of convective storms in high-resolution Unified Model simulations, 2015. Talk at: Met Office seminar, 23 January, Exeter.
  102. R. S. Plant. Convection closure and energy cycle, 2015. Talk at: Workshop on Statistical Cumulus Dynamics, 15 June, National Meteorological Administration, Bucharest, Romania.
  103. O. Coceal, M.-J. Bopape, and R. S. Plant. Evaluation of a tensor eddy-diffusivity model for the terra incognita, 2014. Talk at: 21st AMS Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 9-13 June 2014, Leeds.
  104. O. Coceal, M.-J. Bopape, and R. S. Plant. Performance of a tensor eddy-diffusivity model for a neutral and convective boundary layer at grey-zone resolutions, 2014. Talk at: NCAS Science Conference 2014, 17-18 July, Bristol.
  105. C. L. Daleu, S. J. Woolnough, R. S. Plant, A. H. Sobel, D. J. Raymond, S. Sessions, S. Wang, and G. Bellon. Intercomparison of methods of coupling between convection and large-scale circulation, 2014. Talk at: AGU Fall Meeting, 15-19 December, San Fransisco, USA.
  106. S. Dey, R. S. Plant, S. Migliorini, and N. Roberts. A look at the spatial location and predictability of convective storms over the UK, 2014. Talk at: Royal Meteorological Society, SE Centre Meeting, 3 December, Reading.
  107. S. R. A. Dey, R. S. Plant, N. M. Roberts, and S. Migliorini. A look at the spatial characteristics of convective storms in MOGREPS-UK, 2014. Talk at: Met Office seminar, 14 November, Exeter, UK.
  108. G. Efstathiou, R. J. Beare, M.-J. Bopape, O. Coceal, and R. S. Plant. Modelling grey zone boundary layers: The GreyBLs project, 2014. Talk at: WGNE/GASS Workshop: The Grey Zone Project, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, 1-3 December, Hamburg, Germany.
  109. D. L. A. Flack, R. S. Plant, S. L. Gray, H. W. Lean, and G. C. Craig. The appropriate use of a convective adjustment timescale to distinguish between regimes of predictability, 2014. Royal Meteorological Society Student Conference, Manchester, UK, July 2014.
  110. H. W. Lean, P. A. Clark, C. Halliwell, K. E. Hanley, R. J. Hogan, J. Nicol, R. S. Plant, and T. Stein. Statistical analysis of UK convection and its representation in high resolution NWP models, 2014. World Weather Open Science Conference 2014, Montreal, Canada, 16-21 August.
  111. H. W. Lean, K. E. Hanley, C. Halliwell, T. H. M. Stein, R. J. Hogan, J. Nicol, R. S. Plant, and P. Clark. Use of DYMECS Observations to Validate the Representation of Convection over the UK in High Resolution Versions of the Unified Model, 2014. Talk at: 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, 2-6 February, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  112. O. Martinez-Alvarado, L. Baker, S. L. Gray, J. Methven, and R. S. Plant. Distinguishing the cold conveyor belt and sting jet air streams in an intense extratropical cyclone, 2014. World Weather Open Science Conference 2014, Montreal, Canada, 16-21 August.
  113. R. S. Plant. Boundary Layer Parameterization, 2014. Talk at: Summer School on Physics and Dynamics of Numerical Weather Prediction, 28 - 31 July, Nanjing University, China.
  114. R. S. Plant. Convection Parameterization: Part II, 2014. Talk at: Summer School on Physics and Dynamics of Numerical Weather Prediction, 28 - 31 July, Nanjing University, China.
  115. R. S. Plant. Convection Parameterization: Part I, 2014. Talk at: Summer School on Physics and Dynamics of Numerical Weather Prediction, 28 - 31 July, Nanjing University, China.
  116. R. S. Plant. Convection "Resolving" Models: How well is the convection actually resolved?, 2014. Talk at: Summer School on Physics and Dynamics of Numerical Weather Prediction, 28 - 31 July, Nanjing University, China.
  117. R. S. Plant. Microphysics Parameterization, 2014. Talk at: Summer School on Physics and Dynamics of Numerical Weather Prediction, 28 - 31 July, Nanjing University, China.
  118. R. S. Plant. Overview and Cloud Cover Parameterization, 2014. Talk at: Summer School on Physics and Dynamics of Numerical Weather Prediction, 28 - 31 July, Nanjing University, China.
  119. T. H. M. Stein, R. J. Hogan, P. A. Clark, C. E. Haliwell, K. E. Hanley, H. W. Lean, J. C. Nicol, and R. S. Plant. The DYMECS project: A statistical approach for the evaluation of convective storms in high-resolution models, 2014. Talk at: WGNE/GASS Workshop: The Grey Zone Project, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, 1-3 December, Hamburg, Germany.
  120. T. H. M. Stein, R. J. Hogan, J. Nicol, R. S. Plant, P. A. Clark, K. E. Hanley, C. Halliwell, and H. W. Lean. The DYMECS project: A statistical approach for the evaluation of convective storms in high-resolution models, 2014. Talk at: Cascade Downstream Workshop on Convection Modelling, 7-8 October, Reading.
  121. S. Dey, R. S. Plant, S. Migliorini, and N. Roberts. High resolution ensemble analysis: linking correlations and spread to physical processes, 2013. Talk at: 13th EMS Annual Meeting and 11th European Conference on Applications of Meteorology, 9-13 September, Reading.
  122. K. E. Hanley, R. S. Plant, H. W. Lean, C. Halliwell, T. Stein, and R. Hogan. Mixing length controls on high resolution simulations of convective storms, 2013. Talk at: 13th EMS Annual Meeting and 11th European Conference on Applications of Meteorology, 9-13 September, Reading.
  123. K. E. Hanley, R. S. Plant, H. W. Lean, C. Halliwell, T. Stein, and R. J. Hogan. Mixing length controls on high resolution simulations of convective storms, 2013. Talk at: European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 7-12 April, Vienna, Austria.
  124. K. E. Hanley, R. S. Plant, T. H. Stein, R. J. Hogan, H. Lean, and C. Halliwell. DYMECS: Dynamical and Microphysical Evolution of Convective Storms, 2013. Talk at: JWCRP Workshop on Understanding and Representing Atmospheric Convection Across Scales, 28-30 January, Dartington, UK.
  125. R. J. Hogan, T. Stein, J. Nicol, R. S. Plant, K. Hanley, H. Lean, C. Halliwell, and E. Carter. Radar evaluation of the structure of thunderstorms in high resolution forecasts, 2013. Talk at: RMetS National Meeting, 20th March, London, UK.
  126. R. J. Keane, R. S. Plant, and W. J. Tennant. The Plant-Craig stochastic Convection scheme in MOGREPS, 2013. Talk at: Joint SRNWP Workshop on Model Physics and Ensemble Prediction Systems, 18-20 June, AEMET, Madrid, Spain.
  127. O. Martinez-Alvarado, L. Baker, S. L. Gray, J. Methven, and R. S. Plant. Airstreams in regions of strong winds in extratropical cyclone Friedhelm: Model results and observational evidence, 2013. Talk at: RACEWIN Workshop on European Storms, 2-4 September, Hadley Centre, Exeter.
  128. O. Martinez-Alvarado, L. Baker, S. L. Gray, J. Methven, and R. S. Plant. Progress on the analysis of IOP-8, 11 December 2011, 2013. Talk at: DIAMET Science Meeting, 7-8 March, Manchester.
  129. O. Martinez-Alvarado, H. Joos, J. Chagnon, M. Bottcher, S. L. Gray, R. S. Plant, J. Methven, and H. Wernli. Progress on the analysis of the warm conveyor belt in the T-NAWDEX-III case 23-25 November 2009, 2013. Talk at: DIAMET Science Meeting, 7-8 March, Manchester.
  130. O. Martinez-Alvarado, H. Joos, J. M. Chagnon, M. Bottcher, S. L. Gray, R. S. Plant, and H. Wernli. Diabatic processes and branch splitting of a warm conveyor belt in MetUM and COSMO model simulations, 2013. Talk at: 13th EMS Annual Meeting and 11th European Conference on Applications of Meteorology, 9-13 September, Reading.
  131. O. Martinez-Alvarado and R. S. Plant. Liquid detrainment in convection embedded in a cold front, 2013. Talk at: DIAMET Science Meeting, 7-8 March, Manchester.
  132. O. Martinez-Alvarado and R. S. Plant. Progress on the analysis 30 September 2011 DIAMET case, 2013. Talk at: DIAMET Science Meeting, 7-8 March, Manchester.
  133. O. Martinez-Alvarado and R. S. Plant. Resolved versus parameterised convection in numerical simulations of extratropical cyclones, 2013. Talk at: 13th EMS Annual Meeting and 11th European Conference on Applications of Meteorology, 9-13 September, Reading.
  134. O. Martinez-Alvarado, R. S. Plant, L. Baker, J. Chagnon, S. L. Gray, J. Methven, H. Joos, M. Bottcher, and H. Wernli. Understanding the mesoscale structure of extratropical cyclones: Three case studies during the DIAMET project, 2013. Talk at: Departmental seminar, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading.
  135. D. McNamara, R. S. Plant, and S. E. Belcher. A global climatology of boundary layer ventilation, 2013. Talk at: European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 7-12 April, Vienna, Austria.
  136. R. S. Plant. The ingredients of a typical mass flux scheme, 2013. Talk at: COST ES0905 Final Training School, 29 September - 9 October, Brac, Croatia.
  137. R. S. Plant. Parameterization in the grey zone: what should it recognize?, 2013. Talk at: JWCRP Workshop on Understanding and Representing Atmospheric Convection Across Scales, 28-30 January, Dartington, UK.
  138. R. S. Plant, E. Carter, P. A. Clark, C. Halliwell, K. E. Hanley, R. J. Hogan, D. E. Kirshbaum, H. W. Lean, J. Nicol, T. Stein, and R. A. Warren. Convective-Scale Numerical Modelling. How accurate is "realistic-looking"?, 2013. Talk at: Space and Atmospheric Physics Seminar Series, 18th June, Imperial College.
  139. T. Stein, R. J. Hogan, E. Carter, C. Halliwell, K. E. Hanley, H. Lean, J. Nicol, and R. S. Plant. The three-dimensional microphysical and dynamical structure of convective storms, 2013. Talk at: 7th European Conference on Severe Storms, 3-7 June, Helsinki, Finland.
  140. T. H. M. Stein, R. J. Hogan, P. Clark, C. Halliwell, K. E. Hanley, H. W. Lean, J. Nicol, and R. S. Plant. The three-dimensional microphysical and dynamical structure of convective storms, 2013. Talk at: 13th EMS Annual Meeting and 11th European Conference on Applications of Meteorology, 9-13 September, Reading.
  141. T. H. M. Stein, R. J. Hogan, J. Nicol, R. S. Plant, P. A. Clark, K. E. Hanley, C. Halliwell, and H. W. Lean. Evaluation of three-dimensional cloud structures in DYMECS, 2013. Talk at: Workshop on Convection in Met Office models at high resolution, 13 June, Reading.
  142. R. A. Warren, D. J. Kirshbaum, R. S. Plant, and H. W. Lean. A Quasi-Stationary Convective System Associated with Sea Breeze Convergence, 2013. Talk at: 15th AMS Conference on Mesoscale Processes, 6-9 August, Portland, Oregon, USA.
  143. M. A. Whitall and R. S. Plant. Using stochastic parameterisations to study the sensitivity of the atmosphere to variability at scales poorly resolved in GCMs, 2013. Talk at: Met Office seminar, Exeter, UK.
  144. L. Baker, O. Martinez-Alvarado, S. L. Gray, J. Methven, N. Roberts, and R. S. Plant. Analysis of Cyclone Friedhelm, 8 December 2011 (DIAMET IOP-8), 2012. Talk at: DIAMET Science Meeting, 6 November, Manchester.
  145. K. N. Bower, T. W. Choularton, J. Crosier, G. Lloyd, J. R. Dorsey, M. W. Gallagher, P. Connolly, C. Dearden, G. Vaughan, and the DIAMET Team. The Microphysics of Cold Fronts measured during DIAMET, 2012. Talk at: European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 22-27 April, Vienna, Austria.
  146. C. L. Daleu, R. S. Plant, and S. J. Woolnough. Modelling the interactions between tropical convection and large-scale dynamics, 2012. Talk at: 1st Pan-GASS Meeting: Advances in the Modelling of Atmospheric Physical Processes, 10-14 September, Boulder, Colarado, USA.
  147. R. J. Hogan, R. S. Plant, T. Stein, K. Hanley, J. Nicol, H. Lean, and C. Halliwell. DYMECS: Dynamical and Microphysical Evolution of Convective Storms, 2012. Talk at: COPE Science Meeting, 25th October, Reading, UK.
  148. O. Martinez-Alvarado, J. Chagnon, S. L. Gray, R. S. Plant, J. Methven, H. Joos, M. Bötcher, and H. Wernli. Diabatic processes and the structure of the warm conveyor belt, 2012. Talk at: 2nd European Windstorms Workshop, 3-5 September 2012, Leeds, UK.
  149. O. Martinez-Alvarado and R. S. Plant. Diagnosis of convective parameterisation schemes in extratropical cyclones, 2012. Talk at: Workshop on Concepts for Convective Parmeterisations in Large-Scale Models, 20-22 March, CIMA Foundation, Savona, Italy.
  150. O. Martinez-Alvarado and R. S. Plant. Liquid detrainment in convection embedded in a cold front, 2012. Talk at: COST Action WG1+2 Meeting on Entrainment and Detrainment, 22-23 February, KNMI, Utrecht, Netherlands.
  151. O. Martinez-Alvarado, R. S. Plant, J. Chagnon, S. L. Gray, J. Methven, H. Joos, M. Bottcher, and H. Wernli. Diabatic processes and the structure of extratropical cyclones, 2012. Talk at: Geophysical and Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminar, AOPP, 23 October, Oxford.
  152. R. S. Plant. Spectral and Bulk Mass-Flux Convective Parameterizations, 2012. Talk at: Workshop on Concepts for Convective Parmeterisations in Large-Scale Models, 20-22 March, CIMA Foundation, Savona, Italy.
  153. T. H. M. Stein, K. E. Hanley, R. Hogan, J. Nicol, R. S. Plant, E. Carter, C. Halliwell, H. W. Lean, A. Macallan, M. Clarke, A. Doo, and D. Ladd. DYMECS: The evolution of thunderstorms in the Met Office Unified Model, 2012. Talk at: NCAS Weather Rainfall Forum, 27 July, Manchester.
  154. T. H. M. Stein, K. E. Hanley, R. Hogan, R. S. Plant, E. Carter, H. W. Lean, J. Nicol, C. Halliwell, and A. Macallan. Tracking the three-dimensional evolution of convective storms in radar observations and high-resolution models, 2012. Talk at: 26th Conference on Severe Local Storms, 5-8 November, Nashville, USA.
  155. G. Vaughan and the DIAMET Team. The DIAMET Campaign, 2012. Invited talk at: European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 22-27 April, Vienna, Austria.
  156. R. A. Warren, R. S. Plant, H. Lean, and D. Kirshbaum. Numerical simulations of a COPE-type case, 2012. Talk at: COPE Science Meeting, 25th October, Reading, UK.
  157. R. A. Warren, R. S. Plant, H. Lean, and D. Kirshbaum. Quasi-Stationary Convective Storms in the UK: A case study, 2012. Talk at: RMetS Conference, 9-12 July, Leeds, UK.
  158. R. A. Warren, R. S. Plant, H. Lean, and D. Kirshbaum. A quasi-stationary convective system over the UK Southwest Peninsula, 2012. Talk at: 4th CNR-ISAC Summer School. Severe Convective Weather: Theory and Applications, 17-21 September, Lecce, Italy.
  159. O. Peters and R. S. Plant. The precipitation phase transition and climate modeling, 2011. Talk at: Workshop on Concepts for Convective Parameterizations in Large-Scale Models IV: Convective organisation, 23-25 March, Cambridge, UK.
  160. R. S. Plant. A Modelling Framework for Statistical Cumulus Dynamics, 2011. Talk at: Workshop on Hamiltonian Approaches and Statistical Mechanics in Convection Parameterisation, 2-5 May, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
  161. R. S. Plant. Novel Parameterisations in the Boundary Layer, 2011. Talk at: NCAS Workshop on the Boundary Layer, 1 July, Exeter, UK.
  162. R. S. Plant. Stochastic parameterization: uncertainties from convection, 2011. ECMWF Workshop on Representing model uncertainty and error in numerical weather and climate prediction models, Reading, UK, 20-24 June 2011.
  163. S. E. Belcher, I. A. Boutle, R. J. Beare, A. R. Brown, and R. S. Plant. Synoptic controls on moist boundary layer structure, 2010. Talk at: 19th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 2-6th August, Keystone, Colorado, USA.
  164. A. Illingworth, J. Nicol, K. Bartholomew, R. Plant, G. Leoncini, S. Gray, D. Livings, R. Moore, S. Cole, and A. Robson. Enhancing storm and flood forecasting using radar, data assimilation and ensemble Numerical Weather Prediction models, 2010. Talk at: Flood Risk from Extreme Events, Royal Meteorological Sociey National Meeting, 20th October 2010, Imperial College, London UK.
  165. R. J. Keane, R. S. Plant, N. E. Bowler, and W. J. Tennant. Development of a stochastic convection scheme, 2010. Talk at: Departmental seminar, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading.
  166. R. J. Keane, R. S. Plant, N. E. Bowler, and W. J. Tennant. Development of a stochastic convection scheme, 2010. Talk at: April, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich.
  167. R. S. Plant. Boundary layer controls on extratropical cyclone development, 2010. Talk at: Met, Ocean and Climate Seminar Series, 28th May, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia.
  168. R. S. Plant. Issues with convection. What is a useful framework beyond bulk models of large N, non-interacting, scale-separated, equilibrium systems?, 2010. Talk at: Workshop on Stochastic Methods in Climate Modelling, 23-27 August, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK.
  169. R. S. Plant. Self-organized criticality in tropical convection?, 2010. Talk at: Climate Thermodynamics workshop, 21-22nd April, University of Reading, UK.
  170. R. S. Plant and M. A. Whitall. Stochastic parameterization: is sophistication useful?, 2010. Talk at: European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 2-7 May, Vienna, Austria.
  171. I. A. Boutle, S. E. Belcher, R. S. Plant, R. J. Beare, and A. R. Brown. Boundary Layer Dynamics in Extra-tropical Cyclones, 2009. Talk at: Applied Mathematics Seminar, 8 June, University of Exeter.
  172. I. A. Boutle, R. S. Plant, S. E. Belcher, R. J. Beare, and A. R. Brown. Moisture Transport in Baroclinic Waves, 2009. Talk at: European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 19-24 April, Vienna, Austria.
  173. R. J. Keane and R. S. Plant. 3D experiments with a stochastic convective parameterisation scheme, 2009. Talk at: 9th European Conference on Applications of Meteorology, 28 September-2 October, Toulouse, France.
  174. R. J. Keane and R. S. Plant. 3D experiments with a stochastic convective parameterisation scheme, 2009. Talk at: 4th SRNWP Workshop on Short-range Ensemble Prediction Systems, 23-25 June, Met Office, Exeter, UK.
  175. G. Leoncini, R. S. Plant, and S. L. Gray. Convective scale NWP, 2009. Talk at: NERC FREE Workshop on Ensembles, 23-24 September 2009, Reading, UK.
  176. G. Leoncini, R. S. Plant, S. L. Gray, and P. Clark. Error growth at the convective scale, 2009. Talk at: Departmental seminar, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading.
  177. G. Leoncini, R. S. Plant, S. L. Gray, and P. A. Clark. Contrasting convective-scale perturbation growth in two cases over the UK, 2009. Talk at: 9th European Conference on Applications of Meteorology, 28 September-2 October, Toulouse, France.
  178. G. Leoncini, R. S. Plant, S. L. Gray, and P. A. Clark. Error growth at the convective scale, 2009. Talk at: 4th SRNWP Workshop on Short-range Ensemble Prediction Systems, 23-25 June, Met Office, Exeter, UK.
  179. T. I. Ngwana, M.-E. Demory, P.-L. Vidale, R. S. Plant, and M. P. Mbedzi. Impact of land cover changes on the South African climate, 2009. International Conference on Planetary Boundary Layer and Climate Change, Cape Town, South Africa, 26-28 October.
  180. R. S. Plant. Convective Cloud Lifecycles, 2009. Talk at: Departmental seminar, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading.
  181. R. S. Plant. Deep convective parameterization: Some issues (and some solutions?), 2009. Talk at: Centre for Atmospheric Science Seminar, 23rd February, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.
  182. R. S. Plant. What (if any) constraints are desirable on near grid-scale noise?, 2009. Talk at: Mathematical Challenges in Climate Science workshop, 9-13th March, Lorentz Centre, Leiden, Netherlands.
  183. V. A. Sinclair, S. L. Gray, I. A. Boutle, R. S. Plant, and S. E. Belcher. Boundary layer ventilation by weather systems, 2009. Talk at: Symposium on Air Pollution, 9th July, Reading, UK.
  184. S. E. Belcher, I. A. Boutle, R. S. Plant, and R. J. Beare. The role of boundary layer processes in mid-latitude cyclones, 2008. Talk at: 18th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 9-13th June, Stockholm, Sweden.
  185. R. S. Plant. Theory of moist convection in statistical equilibrium, by analogy with Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics, 2008. Talk at: Workshop on Concepts for Convective Parmeterisations in Large-Scale Models, 12-14 February, MPI Hamburg, Germany.
  186. R. S. Plant and L. Davies. Limitations of Equilibrium. Or: What if $\tau_LS\not \gg\tau_adj$?, 2008. Talk at: Workshop on Concepts for Convective Parmeterisations in Large-Scale Models, 12-14 February, MPI Hamburg, Germany.
  187. S. E. Belcher, R. J. Beare, I. A. Boutle, B. J. Hoskins, and R. S. Plant. Role of boundary layer processes in mid-latitude cyclones, 2007. Talk at: 15th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction, 20-24th August, Portland, Oregon, USA.
  188. I. A. Boutle, R. S. Plant, S. E. Belcher, R. J. Beare, and A. R. Brown. Friction in mid-latitude cyclones, 2007. Talk at: RMetS Student Assembly, 1-3rd September, Edinburgh, UK.
  189. L. Davies, R. S. Plant, and S. E. Derbsyhire. Investigating the equilibrium assumption between convection and the forcing, 2007. Talk at: RMetS Conference, 3-6th September, Edinburgh, UK.
  190. L. Davies, R. S. Plant, and S. E. Derbsyhire. What's quasi-equilibrium all about?, 2007. Talk at: Atmosphere-Ocean Convection in Climate Dynamics, Alpine Summer School Course XV, 18-27th June, Valsavarenche, Italy.
  191. A. Illingworth, S. Dance, R. Plant, S. Gray, S. Rennie, J. Nicol, G. Leoncini, K. Bartholomew, R. Moore, S. Cole, S. Ballard, and P. Clark. Overview of FREE project entitled: Exploitation of new data sources, data assimilation and ensemble techniques for storm and flood forecasting, 2007. Talk at: First FREE Science Meeting, 14-15 November 2007, Salford, UK.
  192. G. Leoncini, R. Plant, and S. Gray. Cloud ensemble simulations: Plans and preliminary results, 2007. Talk at: First FREE Science Meeting, 14-15 November 2007, Salford, UK.
  193. R. S. Plant. Cloud tracking in cloud-resolving models, 2007. Talk at: RMetS Conference, 3-6th September, Edinburgh, UK.
  194. S. E. Belcher, D. S. Adamson, B. J Hoskins, and R. S. Plant. The role of boundary layer friction in mid latitude weather systems, 2006. Talk at: DAMTP, Cambridge, UK.
  195. R. S. Plant. Lagrangian Diagnostics, 2006. Talk at: UWERN Mesoscale Modelling Workshop, Reading, UK.
  196. R. S. Plant, G. C. Craig, and C. Keil. A stochastic parameterization for deep convection, 2006. Talk at: European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 2-7 April, Vienna, Austria.
  197. S. E. Belcher, D. S. Adamson, B. J Hoskins, and R. S. Plant. Friction in Mid-Latitude Cyclones: More Than Ekman Pumping, 2005. Talk at: Met Office seminar, Exeter, UK.
  198. G. C. Craig, B. G. Cohen, and R. S. Plant. Statistical mechanics and stochastic convective parameterisation, 2005. ECMWF Workshop on Representation of Sub-grid Processes using Stochastic-Dynamic Models, Reading, UK, 6-8 June 2005.
  199. R. S. Plant and G. C. Craig. Stochastic Representation of Convection, 2005. Talk at: Royal Meteorological Society Dynamical Problems Group. Statistical/stochastic approaches to atmospheric physics, 9th June, Reading, UK. (Also presented as seminar at DLR-Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere, Germany).
  200. R. S. Plant, G. C. Craig, and C. Keil. Towards an Ensemble System with a Stochastic Convection Scheme, 2005. Talk at: RMetS Conference, 11-16th September, Exeter, UK.
  201. G. C. Craig, R. S. Plant, and B. G. Cohen. Stochastic Cumulus Parameterisation(?), 2004. Talk at: NCAS/Met Office Workshop on Convection, 6-8th January, Farnham Castle, UK.
  202. R. S. Plant and G. J. Keith. Occurence of Kelvin-Helmholtz Billows in Sea Breezes, 2004. Talk at: UWERN Conference, 13-15th December, Salford, UK.
  203. G. C. Craig, B. G. Cohen, and R. S. Plant. Towards a Stochastic Convection Scheme, 2003. Talk at: ECMWF seminar, Reading, UK.
  204. R. S. Plant. Mesoscale Applications for Microscale Model?, 2003. Talk at: 2nd Microscale Model Meeting, Leeds, UK.
  205. R. S. Plant. PV Generation in the Boundary Layer, 2003. Talk at: Departmental seminar, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading.
  206. R. S. Plant. Stochastic Aspects of Convection, 2003. Talk at: CSIP Planning Meeting, 14-15th October, Reading, UK.
  207. R. S. Plant and S. E. Belcher. Towards understanding the role of the boundary layer in cyclones: Beyond Ekman spindown, 2003. Talk at: EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, 7-11th April, Nice, France.
  208. R. S. Plant. Frictional Damping of Cyclones, 2002. Talk at: JCMM seminar, University of Reading.
  209. R. S. Plant and S. E. Belcher. Identifying the Origins of PV Anomalies, 2002. Talk at: UWERN Conference, 9-11th September, Colchester, UK.
  210. R. S. Plant, G. C. Craig, and S. L. Gray. A Threefold Classification of Extratropical Cyclogenesis, 2002. European Geographical Society XXVII General Assembly, 21-26th April, Nice, France.
  211. R. S. Plant and M. C. Birse. The $π^0 γ γ^\ast$ Form Factor, 1997. Talk at: Particle Physics and the Early Universe Conference, 7-11th April, Cambridge, UK.