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The energy\u2013water balance FEST-EWB model (flash flood event-based spatially distributed rainfall\u2013runoff transformation\u2014energy\u2013water balance model) computes continuously in time and is distributed in space soil moisture (SM) and evapotranspiration (ET) fluxes solving for a land surface temperature that closes the energy\u2013water balance equations. The comparison between modelled and observed LST was used to calibrate the model soil parametres with a newly developed pixel to pixel calibration procedure. The effects of the calibration procedure were analysed against ground measures of soil moisture and evapotranspiration. The FEST-EWB model was run at 30 m of spatial resolution for the period between 2013 and 2018. 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