Sylvia Bohnenstengel

Sylvia Bohnenstengel is a researcher at the University of Reading's Department of Meteorology, specializing in urban meteorology, climate change impacts, and air quality. Her work involves numerical weather prediction, boundary layer dynamics, and urban energy balance studies.

Her research interests include:

• Urban heat island effects and mitigation
• Anthropogenic heat emissions
• Scalar dispersion in urban environments
• Climate change adaptation for cities
• Atmospheric turbulence and flow
• Surface energy balance parameterization

Recent publications analyze:

• 2024: Urban heat flux evaluation via scintillometry
• 2024: Convective motions' impact on dispersion models
• 2022: Turbulence dynamics in idealized urban geometries
• 2018: Sea-breeze detection algorithms
• 2016: Urban heat island effects on health
• Multi-decadal urban climate modeling (2004-2015)

She contributed to the ClearfLo project (2015) examining London's meteorology-air quality-health nexus, and participated in international urban energy balance model comparisons (2010-2011). Her work bridges meteorology, urban planning, and public health.