This essential design guide, comprised of two volumes, has been published by Engineers Australia to provide designers of works and structures subject to floods with the best available information on design flood estimation.

Australian Rainfall and Runoff
Engineers Australia, National Committee for Water Engineering
1999 1858256878  426pp
EA membineers Mediaers: $180 + GST = $198, non-members: $240 + GST = $264 
Electronic edition, single-user: EA members: $90 + GST = $99, non-members: $120 + GST = $132

The major emphasis throughout the document is on the estimation of design floods. It evaluates available design procedures and provides separate design information for individual regions where possible, provides more specific guidance to designers on procedures and design values to be used, on the concepts involved in the procedures and their application, and on likely accuracies. Detailed hydraulic design for urban drainage, where the hydraulic and hydrologic aspects of design are mutually dependent, is included in Book VIII.

Australian Rainfall and Runoff, volume 2
Engineers Australia, National Committee for Water Engineering
1987 0858257467 PDF on CD-ROM
EA members: $105 + GST = $115.50, Non-members: $140 + GST = $154
This volume presents information necessary for the application of the procedures in v.1 and contains design rainfall maps and diagrams for key durations and average recurrence intervals (ARI) plus skewness and short duration parameter maps # interpolation diagrams and figures related to the derivation of design intensity-frequency-duration (IFD) rainfall # tables and figures showing design temporal patterns #  design runoff coefficient maps for NSW and Victoria, and an average annual rainfall map for Western Australia.