Alberto dos Santos Franco

Alberto dos Santos Franco the Admiral Franco (Rio de Janeiro, December 5, 1913 - São Paulo, May 4, 2011) was an officer of the Navy of Brazil. In his career, reached the rank of rear admiral
Biography.
He was the son of Luiz de Araujo Franco and Adelina Santos Franco.
He attended high school in the traditional school Pedro II in Rio de Janeiro and became a navy officer in the Naval Academy in 1933. Participated in the war efforts of the Navy of Brazil during World War II. Later he specialized in studies related to the phenomena of the tides. He was promoted to rear admiral in 1961, he won several medals and was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus of the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo in 1996, where he was director in the period 1970-1974. Developed computational methods based on techniques of Fast Fourier Transform for analysis and prediction of tides. In 1976 he earned a doctorate in Naval Engineering from Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo defending thesis entitled "Components in Harmonic Tide Small Funds". These components are generated by tidal currents, where the periodic movements (amplitude and phase) of Sun and Moon in "around the Earth" are combined in a nonlinear way leading to other components called small fund. It is now generated by the transformation of the tide in ocean barotropic baroclinic tides in the shallow regions of offshore.
Participation in Hydrographic Cruises for building charts.
 Letters - Areas
 802 - Port Natal
 803 - Canal de Sao Roque
 1103 - Bay of Aratu and vicinity (campaign manager)
 1400 - From Rio Doce to Cabo de Sao Tome
 1500 - Cape of São Tomé to Rio de Janeiro
 1504 - Bay of Búzios
 1505 - Cape Buzios Cabo Frio
 1700 - The Island of San Sebastian on the island of Bom Abrigo
 1701 - Port of Santos
 1800 - From Ilha de Bom Abrigo to Ilha do grove
 1804 - Port of South San Francisco
 1805 - Fairway to Joinville
 1809 - Bay of Itapocoroia (campaign manager)
 1810 - Bay of Porto Belo
 1900 - From the Island Grove Towers (campaign manager)
 1905 - Port of Florianópolis (campaign manager)