This has been calculated as the difference between the media porosity and field capacity from a number of studies.
This has been calculated as the difference between the media porosity and field capacity from a number of studies.
# Marine sand: 0.51 - 0.06 = 0.45
# Marine sand: 0.51 - 0.06 = 0.45 <ref name= Liu> Liu, Ruifen, and Elizabeth Fassman-Beck. “Pore Structure and Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity of Engineered Media for Living Roofs and Bioretention Based on Water Retention Data.” Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 23, no. 3 (March 2018): 04017065. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001621</ref>
<ref name= Liu> Liu, Ruifen, and Elizabeth Fassman-Beck. “Pore Structure and Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity of Engineered Media for Living Roofs and Bioretention Based on Water Retention Data.” Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 23, no. 3 (March 2018): 04017065. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001621</ref>