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Two procedures are described that have been developed for the estimation of floods of very low probability as part of the revision of “Australian Rainfall and Runoff”, the guide to flood estimation in Australia published by The Institution of Engineers, Australia. A relatively simple procedure for interpolation of floods between the 1 in 100 flood and the PMF was developed after other procedures were shown to be unsatisfactory over a wide range of Australian data. Choice between flood estimates based on design rainfalls and flood frequency analyses is an important design decision. Guidelines for this choice were developed from the statistical characteristics of Australian flood and design rainfall data.
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Pilgrim, D.H., Rowbottom, I.A., Doran, D.G. (1987). Development of Design Procedures for Extreme Floods in Australia. In: Singh, V.P. (eds) Application of Frequency and Risk in Water Resources. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3955-4_5
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