The View Products module provides one or more web pages with a listing of all of the products. The listing includes the Product Name, a brief segment of the product description, and the name of the product sample and the name of the Product Description Document (PDD) if they are available.

There are two versions of the View Products Module. One lists OFFICIAL products, the Other Lists EXPERIMENTAL products, both however convey the same type of information.

Notice that the items under the columns Product Name, View Example and View PDD are underlined. These are actually functional links, providing details or files for the associated product.

Clicking on a Product Name will bring up a Product Detail Page, which has all of the details associated with that product (described in the following section: Product Details)

Clicking on a name under the View Example column will bring up an actual image file for that product, if available. Likewise clicking on an PDD file name under the View PDD column provides access to a copy of the Product Description Document (PDD) document, in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), or WordPerfect (wpd) format. Depending on your browser's settings, you
may also hold down the Shitf key while clicking on the link to save (download)  the document.

Since the list of files will span many pages, the bottom of the module, just above the “Menu” provides information on the total number of items retreived and the number of display pages.
When more than one page is available, you may click on the page number to go to a particular page, or you may click on the Prev. Page <<   or   >> Next Page links to navigate back and forth among the pages.
 

PRODUCT DETAILS:

The product details information includes:

Product Name: The official name for the product. 

Description: A brief text description of the product, its use, and other information necessary to convey the uniqueness of that product. 

Source: The source for the data or product. Typically this would be the WFO or Center producing the said product.

Originator: The person or office who originally developed the product, and/or is the Point of Contact for information on that product.

Parameters: This field should include a list of the sensible weather or other elements used to derive the product, e.g. Max Temperature.

Example (image File): The name of the sample image file stored, typically a *.JPG or *.GIF file.

Product Description Document: The name of the PDD (if available) for the product. This is typically a PDF or WordPerfect file.