In many respects internal gravity waves (IGWs) still pose major questions both to the atmospheric sciences, to ocean sciences and to stellar physics. Important issues are IGW radiation from their various relevant sources, IGW reflection at boundaries, their propagation through and interaction with a larger-scale flow, wave-induced mean flow, wave-wave interactions in general, wave breaking and its implications for mixing, and the parameterization of these processes in models not explicitly resolving IGWs. Also the observational record, both on a global scale and with respect to local small-scale processes, is not yet sufficiently able to yield appropriate constraints. The session is intended to bring together experts from all fields of geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics working on related problems. A special focus this year will be results from the DEEPWAVE project (https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/deepwave). However, presentations on theoretical, modeling, experimental, and observational work with regard to all aspects of IGWs are most welcome.

Invited speakers: Early career scientists Laura Holt (NWRA) and Bernd Kaifler (DLR)