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Turbulent flux measurements were made at four levels (42, 90, 195, and 340 m) by the NOAA P-3 aircraft over first-year sea ice in the northern Bering Sea during February 1982. Three profiles of momentum flux and mean wind were used to calculate an air-ice drag coefficient CD of 3.0 ___ .6 x 10 -3 referenced to a 10-m anemometer height. The boundary layer was slightly unstable (z.JL = -1.2, where z i was the inversion height of 660 m and L the Monin-Obukhov length). The mean wind speed at the 42-m height was 17 m/s, and the air temperature was -20øC. From turbulent heat flux measurements the value of the bulk heat transfer coefficient Ctt was 0.73 .+_ .16 x 10 -3, giving a C•/C• of 0.24. The Bowen ratio was greater than 2.8. Comparison of the present turbulent flux and variance profiles with those collected over the ocean shows agreement, which increases confidence in the calculations. The geostrophic drag coefficient lu.I/IGI, where u. is the friction velocity and G is the geostrophic wind, was 0.047. The turning angle of the surface wind (measured by an anemometer at a height of 3 m on the ice) was 32 ø, and the ratio of surface wind speed to the geostrophic wind speed was 0.76.

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The sampling cavity of the NBS refractome te rs has bee n e valuated in a wind tunnel , a wate r flow tunn el, and in the free atmos phere. The cavity is slightly velocity-sensitive. It is also as pectse nsitive, an error bein g introduced whe n the wind is oblique to the axi s of the cavity affecting th e level of th e s pec trum. Th e charac te ri stic flu shing length of th e cavity in normal operation is estimated as 0.75 meters whe n the wind is into the c avity and co nsid erably more whe n th e wind is at an oblique an gle. A modifi ed cavity has been de veloped whi c h a ppears to substantially impro ve the res ponse of the refractome te r.