Lu Wang

Lu Wang is affiliated with the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University, Beijing, China. They contributed to the study on historical soil moisture variability and trends on the Tibetan Plateau, focusing on paleoclimate proxy analysis using tree-ring δ¹⁸O.

Their research explores the interplay between precipitation, temperature, and soil moisture dynamics, emphasizing the anthropogenic weakening of the Indian summer monsoon as a driver for declining soil moisture and increased ecological drought risk. This work utilized tree-ring data from the southeastern Tibetan Plateau to reconstruct three centuries of summer soil moisture patterns, revealing unprecedented variability since the 1950s.

The study, published in Water Resources Research, highlights the dominance of precipitation over temperature in soil moisture variation and its implications for ecosystem stability. It involved collaborations with institutions such as the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, University of Gothenburg, and Chinese Academy of Sciences.