Renforth, Phil; Henderson, Gideon (2017): Assessing ocean alkalinity for carbon sequestration
Renforth, Phil; Henderson, Gideon (2017): Assessing ocean alkalinity for carbon sequestration. In Rev. Geophys. 12 (49), p.[nbsp]980. DOI: 10.1002/2016RG000533.
„Carbon storage in the ocean as bicarbonate ions (by increasing ocean alkalinity) has received very little attention. Yet recent work suggests sufficient capacity to sequester copious quantities of CO2. It may be possible to sequester hundreds of billions to trillions of tons of C without surpassing postindustrial average carbonate saturation states in the surface ocean. When globally distributed, the impact of elevated alkalinity is potentially small and may help ameliorate the effects of ocean acidification.“