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Elizabeth Shaw's greatest career achievement was as author of the popular textbook "Hydrology in practice", first published in 1983 and now in its fourth edition. The textbook covers hydrological measurements, analysis, modeling and applications, and is aimed at hydrology students in engineering and
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The textbook is described by the publisher as "likely to be the course text for every undergraduate/MSc hydrology course in the UK". The third edition was described as "an excellent compendium of techniques and methods of hydrological measurement and data analysis" in a review published by
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is widely used and recommended by universities and academic institutions, for example being suggested as an exam reference by the
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degrees in hydrology, starting 1964–65. At
Imperial, she developed new analytical techniques to design rain gauge networks for accurate estimation of areal average rainfall.
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Sutcliffe, J.V. (1984). "Hydrology in practice. Elizabeth M. Shaw. Van
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record that continues today to form the longest series of monthly temperature observations in existence. From 1960–63 she was a researcher at
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Shaw, Elizabeth; O'Connell, P.E. (1976). "Design of a rain gauge network to provide a specified accuracy in mean areal rainfall".
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