Abstract: Comparisons of December general circulation means between 1982 and 1980 conclude that the El Nino event in 1982/83 had a great impact on global atmospheric circulation in that (1) it intensified both the Hadley and meridional circulations; (2)it streng thened mid-latitude westerlies in both hemispheres (especially the northern hemisphere), resulting in a temperature rise for lower troposphere and 200 hPa mid-laittudes and mild drop for lower tropospheric mid-latitudes; (3) it dramatically increased the atmospheric temperature while lowering it significantly for northern subtropical regions except for near-suface layers.Corresponding to the anomaly of the basic state of the atmospheric circulation, the El Nino anomaly also causes obvious anomalies in the transfer of momentum, heat and moisture, the transfer is strongly affected by both the anomalies of the mean circulation and the perturbations, especially those at planetary scales.