Climatic Cycles and Gradients of the El Niño Core Region in North Peru

Table 2

Parameters of the fitted sinus function.

	Amplitude	Offset	Phase
Temperature	6.3 K	23.8°C	1 September
Relative humidity	12%	70%	18 August
Wind velocity	1.4 ms^−1	2.3 ms^−1	1 March
Solar radiation	100 Wm^−2	220 Wm^−2	1 January
Barometric pressure	3.2 hPa	1007.5 hPa	1 March