Air-water fluxes of oxygen and carbon dioxide have been calculated for a model which incorporates a turbulent air layer and takes into account the effects of the fluxes of sensible and latent heat on the temperature of the liquid surface. The calculated fluxes are compared with the experimental results of Liss et al. (1981), Smith and Jones (1985), and Smith et al. (1991). The results of this comparison clearly demonstrate both the importance of coupling, in the sense of irreversible thermodynamics, of heat and matter fluxes at the gas-water interface and the important role of the surface temperature of the liquid in controlling the magnitude and sometimes even the direction of the gas flux. The large carbon dioxide fluxes found by Smith and coworkers can be accounted for by assuming eddy diffusion, rather than molecular diffusion, on the seaside of the interface. This is consistent with an earlier suggestion that their measurements were affected by proximity to a surf zone. The present calculations might serve as the basis of a practical method of determining air-sea fluxes of CO2 and other trace gases. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1994