Regression coefficients have been computed from monthly. seasonal and annual means of eleven meteorological variables and eight energy fluxes by 10° areas over the North and South Atlantic Oceans from January IMS through December 1972. Many linear trends of annual means have been plotted on charts and studied for spatial and flux-variable, relationships. Pressure tendencies showed that pressures, increased under the eastern part of the subtropical high-pressure nets in both hemispheres and decreased east of the mean trough extending southwestward from the Icelandic low-pressure center. Net effects of these trends were to increase the strengths of the westerlies and easterlies in both hemispheres. Meridional winds evolved in such a manner that warm air transport to Greenland increased. Equatoward wind components increased over the eastern tropical Atlantic. Charts presenting trends in air temperature, humidity, clouds, rain and surface fluxes show the relations between these variables, surface fluxes, changing circulation patterns and sea surface temperature. The mixing ratio trend is negative over both oceans with maximum decrease over the Gulf of Mexico and the cut coast of North America. A general decrease in sea temperature is noted over all of the North Atlantic with large decreases off New England and the Maritime Provinces. Long-term sea temperature averages compiled by others indicate that the North Atlantic decrease can be considered as a return to more normal temperatures after two decades with abnormally high temperatures. Upward sea temperature trends are noted in the trade wind region of the South Atlantic. Latent beat flux trends usually determine the trend of the heat gain by the ocean. When latent heat flux trends result from oceanographic changes, i.e., advection or upwelling changes, inverse relations between sea surface temperature and heat gain by the ocean occur. When meteorological changes such as circulation patterns cause trends, direct relations between sea surface temperature and beat gain are produced. From the Middle Atlantic Bight to Greenland sea surface temperature decreased rapidly, presumably through cold water advection causing a large drop in the saturated mixing ratio at the air-sea interface, a decrease in the latent heat flux, and a resulting increase in the heat gain by the ocean. Over nearly all of the rest of the North and South Atlantic Ocean the trend of the heat gain was negative. Over most of the North Atlantic the decrease in heat gain was caused by meteorological events and hence the sea surface temperature also decreased. Over the South Atlantic the sea temperature trend was positive and produced a negative trend of the boat gain by the ocean.