This is an excellent and very important contribution to the Guide to Best Practices in Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement Research. See: Ho D. T., Bopp L., Palter J. B., Long M. C., Boyd P., Neukermans G. & Bach L., 2023. Monitoring, reporting, and verification for ocean alkalinity enhancement. State of the Planet. https://lnkd.in/eg8DcDdQ
Monitoring, reporting, and verification (#MRV) refers to the multistep process to quantify the amount of CO₂ removed by a CO₂ removal (#CDR) activity. As part of the newly published Best Practices Guide to Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) Research, my coauthors (Laurent Bopp, Jaime Palter, Matthew Long, Philip Boyd, Griet Neukermans, and Lennart Bach) and I make recommendations for MRV for Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (#OAE) research, arguing that it has an obligation for comprehensiveness, reproducibility, and transparency, as it may become the foundation for assessing large-scale deployment. We discuss what MRV is in the context of OAE, the specificities of MRV for marine CDR, observation and model based techniques for MRV and their limitations, and propose a way forward based on both observations and modeling. Finally, we make the following recommendations for best practices. https://lnkd.in/gpuSu-wH