The present study shows that the weak (out-of-phase) correlation between the boreal spring Atlantic Meridional Mode (AMM) index and Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) during the 1990-2002 periods turned into a signi cant positive relationship after that. During the rst period, the major mode of spring season Atlantic SST has stronger cooling in the southeastern region and is intensi ed by summer.After 2002, the spring pattern has stronger north Atlantic warming extending to the equatorial region continuing to summer. The pattern change of the Atlantic SST is associated with a pre-existing El Nino during period 1 and the formation of La Nina by summer during period 2. During period 1, ENSO-induced ISMR anomalies dominated with weak divergence over India and the Atlantic region, while during period 2, the warm SST anomalies of north Atlantic-induced off-equatorial convection and associated circulation contributed to increased ISMR along with La Nina direct in uence on monsoon. The study further showed that during period 2, the increased correlation of ENSO and ISMR is also contributed by the Atlantic SST anomalies with additional off-equatorial wind anomalies and circulation from the north Atlantic extending to the Indian Ocean and monsoon region. Thus, Atlantic SST anomalies play a signi cant role in ENSO phase reversal and ISMR during the recent period. Many of the seasonal prediction models that participated in the NMME project capture the phase reversal of AMM-ISMR correlation when initialized during February. But models have stronger equatorial SST patterns during the summer season, which is mainly contributed by co-occurring ENSO. The models with a weak AMM-ISMR relationship in the recent period also have a feeble AMM-ENSO association, resulting in weak North Atlantic SST anomalies associated with AMM. The study indicates that the spring season AMM index can provide a predictive signal for ISMR in seasonal prediction models, but they need to simulate proper interactions of the tropical Atlantic and Paci c Oceans.Here b is the constant calculated from the linear regression of X(t) and Nino3.4(t). It s to be noted that the above method only removes the linear effect of ENSO (Nino3.4 SST) from the SST anomalies of other regions.To analyze the decadal variability of the AMM-ISMR relationship an 11-yr running correlation and that of two different periods such as 1990-2002 and 2003-2020 is also carried out based on the 11 years running correlation from Fig. 1. AMM-ISMR relationship is analyzed from different seasonal prediction models that participated in National Multi-Model Comparison Project (NMME, Kirtman, et al 2013) for the period 1981-2019/202020 period. The NMME is a multimodel predicting system consisting of a series of coupled climate models from U.S. modeling centers, including NCEP, GFDL, NASA, NCAR, and the Canadian Meteorological Centre. The models used for the study are given in the rst column of Table 1. SST and rainfall data for all these model hindcasts are available on the IRI data server: h...