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A Change in the Summer Atmospheric Circulation over the North Atlantic  J. W. Hurrell National Center for Atmospheric Research P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307-3000 Email: jhurrell@ucar.edu C. K. Folland Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research Meteorological Office Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 2SY, UK Introduction The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) has been identified as one of the five principal research areas of the DecCen component of CLIVAR. One reason is that the NAO and its time dependence appear central to the current global change debate. A substantial fraction of t