Uncertainty in regional estimates of capacity for carbon capture and storage

Wilkinson, Mark; Polson, Debbie

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1707-2019

Articles | Volume 10, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1707-2019

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Understanding the unknowns: the impact of uncertainty in the...

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1707-2019

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Articles | Volume 10, issue 5

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15 Oct 2019

Research article |

| 15 Oct 2019

Uncertainty in regional estimates of capacity for carbon capture and storage

Mark Wilkinson and Debbie Polson

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RC1: 'remarks', Ran Calvo, 07 Apr 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to Ran Calvo (Referee)', Mark Wilkinson, 13 Jun 2019
RC2: 'Reviewer's comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Jun 2019
- AC2: 'Reviewer 2 reply', Mark Wilkinson, 13 Jun 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Mark Wilkinson on behalf of the Authors (26 Jun 2019)

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (29 Jun 2019) by Juan Alcalde

RR by Ran Calvo (28 Jul 2019)

RR by Philip Stauffer (20 Aug 2019)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (21 Aug 2019) by Juan Alcalde

AR by Mark Wilkinson on behalf of the Authors (28 Aug 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (28 Aug 2019) by Juan Alcalde

ED: Publish as is (31 Aug 2019) by Federico Rossetti (Executive editor)

AR by Mark Wilkinson on behalf of the Authors (10 Sep 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Carbon capture and storage is a technology for the mitigation of industrial CO₂ emissions. Most subsurface storage capacity is in rocks for which there is relatively little information. A group of experts estimated the storage capacity of seven units, producing a wide range of estimates for each unit due to a combination of using different published values for some variables and differences in their judgements of average values. Hence, there is significant uncertainty in such estimates.