Breakout Summary Report

This session will provide an overview of the CoURAGE science plan (https://www.arm.gov/publications/programdocs/DOE-SC-ARM-24-016.pdf), ongoing observations, research groups involved in CoURAGE and the research progress to date. The goal is to introduce CoURAGE and its associated project to the broader ASR research community and increase participation in CoURAGE, especially in the analysis and modeling phases of the project. A specific objective is to initiate model intercomparison projects constructed around the CoURAGE data sets. Another objective is to coordinate summer through winter 2025 field activities that complement CoURAGE. CoURAGE is a DOE ARM MF1 deployment (https://www.arm.gov/research/campaigns/amf2024courage) taking place in Baltimore from 1 December, 2024 through 30 November, 2025. CoURAGE builds upon the DOE-funded Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative (https://bsec.21cc.jhu.edu), one of the four DOE urban integrated field laboratories (https://ess.science.energy.gov/urban-ifls/about/).

An overarching discussion point focused on how to generate collaboration with new investigators interested in CoURAGE. Additional discussion points included potential modeling experiments and how to best set them up, creating intentional sessions to discuss current results from CoURAGE, either through scientific conferences or going to different DOE laboratories, and using lessons learned as well as results from a recent DOE campaign that addressed similar questions (TRACER in Houston, TX, region).

Communications through meetings and workshops and creating web pages or other pieces of documents/information to discuss what scientific questions are already being pursued so that individuals, including DOE scientists, understand what is already being investigated is needed. Further, we need to try to communicate and work with the different ASR working groups, through additions to newsletters and presenting preliminary results at working group meetings.

Most of the leadership team for CoURAGE is based at universities, limiting, at present, the resources necessary to create some of these items that would help with communication (e.g., website creation).

One potential need is to find/fund a part-time individual to provide the administrative help necessary to facilitate communications.

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Some plans include creating special sessions for scientific conferences for the year 2026/7 after the completion of CoURAGE, including potentially AAAR, AGU, and/or AMS to provide a means to show results and create a platform for discussion and collaboration. Further, we will be working with different individuals leading the science in CoURAGE to reach out and get involved with the working groups to provide another means of communication and potential for collaboration. Finally, we will be reaching out to both DOE laboratories for chances to visit and/or present results to gather interest and potential collaboration, as well as reach out to other potentially related DOE projects to pursue overlap and potential for collaboration.

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