Data Archives for NARSTO Field Studies

in Eastern Canada and the Northeastern US

Intensive measurements of ozone, precursors and meteorology have recently been conducted through the NARSTO program in the Northeastern US (NARSTO-NE) and Eastern Canada (NARSTO-CE). Descriptive information on these closely coordinated regional field measurement programs can be accessed below. Data from both NARSTO-CE and NARSTO-NE can be accessed through the NARSTO-NE Data Archive.

NARSTO is a public/private partnership, whose membership spans government, the utilities, industry, and academe throughout Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Its primary mission is to coordinate and enhance policy-relevant scientific research and assessment of tropospheric ozone behavior, with the central programmatic goal of determining workable, efficient, and effective strategies for local and regional ozone management. In accomplishing this goal, NARSTO is charged with establishing and maintaining effective communication channels between its scientific effort and its client community of planners, decision-makers, stakeholders, and strategic analysts. It is also charged with providing a cross-organization planning process, which determines the most effective strategies for scientific investigation. NARSTO coordinates the allocation of financial resources to implement these strategies, and monitors progress of its effort toward fulfillment of its programmatic goal.

The North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone - Canada East (NARSTO-CE) field study was carried out in the summer of 1996 as part of the NOx/VOC Management Plan's Science Program. The field study was a coordinated effort led by the Atmospheric Environment Service (AES) and involved several Canadian provincial and municipal agencies, university groups, and industry. The field study was also closely coordinated with a concurrent field campaign in the United States' Ozone Transport Region (OTR) called NARSTO-Northeast.

A public-private consortium has initiated the NARSTO-Northeast air quality study, as an element of NARSTO. In the short-term, the study will provide data, analyses, and modeling for the Northeast Ozone Transport Region (OTR) that will improve the understanding of the VOC-NOx-ozone source receptor relationships. In the long-term, the study will evaluate and improve the accuracy of photochemical grid models and establish ozone and ozone precursor trends in the OTR and border states as a function of changes in emissions.