diff --git a/Gallery/README.rst b/Gallery/README.rst
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@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ Gallery
 This gallery contains visualization examples from many plotting categories
 of geosciences data.
 
+Specifically, visualizations in this repository are intended to demonstrate Python ways of generating figures akin to the [NCL Application Examples website](https://ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/).
+
+A primary objective of this project is to identify any NCL plotting functionality that is missing from
+the popular Matplotlib + Cartopy toolchain, so each contributed script, if originating from NCL, should
+contain a best-effort attempt at reproducing an NCL graphic as closely as possible without using NCL or PyNGL.
+Read more about [NCAR's pivot-to-python](https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Pivot_to_Python/).
+
 For visualization, mainly `matplotlib` and `cartopy` are used. In addition,
 `geocat-datafiles <https://github.com/NCAR/geocat-datafiles>`_ is used as a
 dataset storage and `geocat-viz <https://github.com/NCAR/geocat-viz>`_ is used for
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index f263aca2d..7dcf7a527 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ GeoCAT-examples Documentation
 This gallery contains visualization examples from many plotting categories
 of geosciences data.
 
+Specifically, visualizations in this repository are intended to demonstrate Python ways of generating figures akin to the [NCL Application Examples website](https://ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/).
+
+A primary objective of this project is to identify any NCL plotting functionality that is missing from
+the popular Matplotlib + Cartopy toolchain, so each contributed script, if originating from NCL, should
+contain a best-effort attempt at reproducing an NCL graphic as closely as possible without using NCL or PyNGL.
+Read more about [NCAR's pivot-to-python](https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Pivot_to_Python/).
+
 For visualization, mainly `matplotlib` and `cartopy` are used. In addition,
 `geocat-datafiles <https://github.com/NCAR/geocat-datafiles>`_ is used as a
 dataset storage and `geocat-viz <https://github.com/NCAR/geocat-viz>`_ is used for