Measurements of atmospheric turbulence made during the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean Experiment (SHEBA) are used
to examine the profile stability functions of momentum, φ
m
, and sensible heat, φ
h
, in the stably stratified boundary layer over the Arctic pack ice. Turbulent fluxes and mean meteorological data that cover
different surface conditions and a wide range of stability conditions were continuously measured and reported hourly at five
levels on a 20-m main tower for 11 months. The comprehensive dataset collected during SHEBA allows studying φ
m
and φ
h
in detail and includes ample data for the very stable case. New parameterizations for φ
m
(ζ) and φ
h
(ζ) in stable conditions are proposed to describe the SHEBA data; these cover the entire range of the stability parameter
ζ =
z/
L from neutral to very stable conditions, where
L is the Obukhov length and
z is the measurement height. In the limit of very strong stability, φ
m
follows a ζ
1/3 dependence, whereas φ
h
initially increases with increasing ζ, reaches a maximum at ζ ≈ 10, and then tends to level off with increasing ζ. The effects
of self-correlation, which occur in plots of φ
m
and φ
h
versus ζ, are reduced by using an independent bin-averaging method instead of conventional averaging.
Keywords Arctic Ocean - Flux–profile relationships - Monin–Obukhov similarity theory - SHEBA Experiment - Stable boundary layer