Leena Sanjay Khadke

Leena Sanjay Khadke serves as a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the 21st Century Weather within the Faculty of Science at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Her research advances predictive modeling of climate extremes through rigorous analysis of atmospheric phenomena and weather systems.

Her primary research domains include Climate Science, Extreme Weather Events, and Atmospheric Science, with specialized focus on sub-hourly precipitation mechanics, wildfire dynamics, and land-atmosphere feedback loops. She employs information theory and numerical modeling techniques, integrating multi-source data from AWS networks, radar systems, flux towers, remote sensing platforms, and reanalysis datasets to decode climate change impacts on extreme weather evolution.

As a core contributor to UNSW's ARC Centre of Excellence for the 21st Century Weather, she operates within a collaborative framework targeting enhanced representation of atmospheric circulations in climate prediction systems, directly supporting the Centre's mission to transform extreme weather forecasting capabilities for the 21st century.