https://cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov/conduit/upload/5182/KeywordsCommunityGuide_Baseline_v1_SIGNED_FINAL.pdf draft 2025-07-25 https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/KeywordViewer/scheme/projects/d42ea5e2-355e-466b-97b7-08cd8ead37de NARSTO Date=2026-02-05 User Id=tstevens User Note=updated definition The NSTC’s Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (CENR) identified ground-level ozone as an initiative in 1995. A signing ceremony for the charter of the North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone (NARSTO) was held at the White House in February of that year. The establishment of NARSTO is a direct response to the identification by the National Research Council (NRC) of the need for a better fundamental understanding of urban and regional ozone and its call for a coordinated national program. NARSTO is a unique public/private partnership whose membership spans government, industry, the utilities, and academia throughout North America, including Mexico and Canada. Its primary mission is to coordinate and enhance policy-relevant scientific research and assessment of tropospheric ozone behavior, with the central goal of providing the information needed for workable, efficient and effective strategies and policies for local and regional ozone management. NARSTO provides cross-organization planning to set a prioritized research agenda and determine the most effective strategy for scientific investigation, coordinates member investments where they voluntarily take responsibility for all needed research activity, and conduct periodic assessments of scientific advances and progress toward fulfilling its goal. NARSO sponsored field campaigns have already been completed in the summers of both 1995 and 1996 by the Southern Oxidants Study. NARSTO-North East (NE) and NARS! TO-NE coordinating with NARSTO-Canada East. In addition to coordinating funding for field research, NARSO is currently preparing a State-of-Science Assessment that will comprehensively review advances in the chemical, physical, and meteorological science of tropospheric ozone. Throughout 1997, seventeen critical review papers were prepared by experts in the relevant research areas. These were presented at a NARSTO Science Symposium in November 1997 and also appeared in a special issue of an air quality journal. The Assessment Report, which is a synthesis of review papers, was completed in December 1998. It addressed how recent scientific progress can be used to develop improved options for ozone management. U. S. Federal agencies participating in NARSTO include the Department of Agriculture, Commerce (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), Energy (Office of Energy Research), the Interior, and Transportation, as well as independent agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, These agencies combined efforts with those of the air quality departments of several State governments, as well as private companies, to perform cooperative research and analysis of pertinent facets of the ozone management issue. Private sector participants include over 30 utilities, automotive, chemical, and other companies. In addition, numerous universities and private sector research organizations are NARSTO partners. 2026-02-05T12:49:50.095Z