. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.

Published in final edited form as: Water Resour Res. 2015 Sep 5;51(9):7189–7201. doi: 10.1002/2015WR017490

Table 3.

Aggregate, column-wide characteristics of organic liquid blobs for sand experiment 2.

	f_N Air contact	f_N No-Air contact	S_N Total	Median Volume Air Contact	Median Volume No-Air Contact	SA/VOL Air contact	SA/VOL No-Air contact	SA/VOL Total
				(mm³)	(mm³)	(mm⁻¹)	(mm⁻¹)	(mm⁻¹)
Scan 1	0	1	21	-	0.011	-	21.3	21.3
Scan 2	0.55	0.45	15	0.166	0.007	27.7	27.2	27.5
Scan 3	0.21	0.79	10	0.062	0.006	25.6	27.3	26.9

SA = surface area of organic liquid, V = volume of organic liquid, f_N is the fraction of organic liquid in contact or not in contact with air, and S_N = residual saturation of organic liquid