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    The North Atlantic Tracks, officially titled the North Atlantic Organised Track System (NAT-OTS), are a structured set of transatlantic flight routes...
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  • that stretched from the northeast of North America to western Europe for the Atlantic crossing. Following the tracks was recommended but not compulsory...
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  • Atlantic Tracks, PACOTS routes are flexible due to jet streams. Eastbound tracks are numbered while westbound ones are lettered. North Atlantic Tracks Pineapple...
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    and CFCs. North Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre Indian Ocean gyre North Pacific gyre South Pacific gyre South Atlantic         gyre...
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    another type of cyclone. They form over low pressure systems. In the North Atlantic and the Eastern Pacific, the term "hurricane" is used, whereas "typhoon"...
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  • strength and direction of westerly winds and location of storm tracks across the North Atlantic. The NAO was discovered through several studies in the late...
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  • automated voice transmissions. Pilots on international routes, such as North Atlantic Tracks, use these transmissions to avoid storms and turbulence, and to...
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  • than half the flights follow the North Atlantic Tracks but about 40% are 'random', with flight plans not on tracks, such as search/rescue and others...
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  • introduced on the North Atlantic in December 2015 for the North Atlantic Tracks. Beginning in 1961, the North Atlantic Organised Track System (NAT-OTS)...
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    The North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) is a baleen whale, one of three right whale species belonging to the genus Eubalaena, all of which...
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