Follow these steps before running the Basic Interface Model.
  1. Enter your name.
  2. Find the latitude and longitude of your city to the nearest hundredth of a degree.
  3. Enter the year, month, and day for you are running your model.
  4. Adjust your O3 daily design value to be any number from 0 to 0.25.
  5. Choose a design ration which is really a fraction of VOCs to on part of NOx. Basically, the VOCs are the only one that change. The NOx is always one.
  6. Type in a percentage with which you want to reduce to NOx's and the COs. Refer back to the design ratio chart A Quick Guide to Using the Air Quality Model in your Basic Interface Model.
  7. Leave the simulation controls as they are.
  8. Do not touch the Output Option.
  9. Scroll down towards the bottom of the page and click on RUN OZIP.
  10. Wait for about 5 minutes to obtain results.
Output:

  1. Look at your results and all the information which irrelevant to you. Scroll down until you find the data table with the title "predicted changes in ozone for future changes in hc." Hc is just other acronym for VOCs.
  2. Look at the O3 Column and find the numbers which are close to the EPA standards (0.12 ppm's). Note both numbers where 0.12 would fit in between and note the decrease in VOCs.
  3. Go to the Interpolation Calculator and type in the following information looking back at the output file: first ozone level, first percent reduction in VOC, second ozone level and second percent reduction.
  4. Evaluate the Interpolated Percent.
  5. Can you explain what these reductions mean socially? Economically?