README.md

metadata

license: mit
pretty_name: ADMESH Domains
size_categories:
  - n<1K
tags:
  - adcirc
  - mesh
  - coastal
  - simulation
  - geoscience

ADMESH Domains

A registry of ADCIRC-compatible coastal-simulation mesh domains, organized as Domains (geographic regions or logical groups) containing one or more Meshes (specific realizations).

• Release: v0.4.3
• Schema version: 0.4
• Domains: 14
• Collections: 5
• Meshes: 46
• Total size: 112.4 MB
• Source: https://github.com/domattioli/Valence

Geographic coverage

Bounding boxes shown for Domains whose coordinates are in lat/lon (decimal degrees). Synthetic, projected, and arbitrary-coordinate Domains are listed in the tables below but not plotted.

Quickstart

Install the Python package and load a mesh from this dataset:

pip install valence-domains[hf]

from valence_domains import get_mesh

mesh = get_mesh("WNAT/hagen@v1")
local_path = mesh.load()       # downloads + caches via huggingface_hub
print(local_path)              # /Users/.../huggingface/hub/.../WNAT_Hagen.14

You can also use the HF CLI directly:

hf download domattioli/Valence --type dataset

Or load the Parquet sidecar to query without Python:

import pyarrow.parquet as pq
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

p = hf_hub_download(
    repo_id="domattioli/Valence",
    filename="manifest.parquet",
    repo_type="dataset",
)
table = pq.read_table(p)
print(table.to_pandas().head())

Real-world domains (14)

Domain	Continent	Meshes	Description
BaranjaHill	Europe	2	Baranja Hill
ChesapeakeBay	North America	1	Chesapeake Bay
DelawareBay	North America	2	Delaware Bay
GreatLakes	North America	1	Great Lakes
Italy	Mediterranean	1	Italy coastal region
LakeErie	North America	2	Lake Erie
LakeMichigan	North America	1	Lake Michigan
WNAT	Atlantic Ocean	4	Western North Atlantic
EasternPacific	Pacific Ocean	1	Eastern Pacific (ENPAC)
EnglishChannel	Europe	0	English Channel
SanFranciscoBay	North America	1	San Francisco Bay
STOFS2DGlobal	Global	0	STOFS-2D-Global
MiddleBosqueRiverWatershed	North America	1	Middle Bosque River Watershed
TidalNechesRiverWatershed	North America	2	Tidal Neches River Watershed

Collections (5)

Collections group Meshes without a Domain Boundary (test cases, primitive shapes). The group_kind column of manifest.parquet says whether a row belongs to a domain or a collection.

Collection	Meshes	Description
MiscTests	7	Miscellaneous test meshes
Rectangles	4	Rectangular reference meshes
Shapes	7	Simple geometric shapes
StructuredGrids	4	Structured grid meshes
TestCases	5	Numbered test cases

File layout

manifest.parquet              # flat one-row-per-mesh sidecar
README.md                     # this file
LICENSES/<license>.txt        # static license texts
meshes/<domain>/<filename>    # original ADCIRC .14 / .2dm files

License

MIT (matches the upstream repo).

Meshes under another license link to its text in LICENSES/:

• SanFranciscoBay/boundary@v1: LGPL-3.0-or-later
• MiddleBosqueRiverWatershed/kang2024@v1: GPL-3.0
• TidalNechesRiverWatershed/kang2024@v1: GPL-3.0
• TidalNechesRiverWatershed/kang2024@v2: GPL-3.0

Files derived from GSHHG carry the GSHHG notice in LICENSES/GSHHG-LICENSE.TXT.

Citation

If you use this registry in research, please cite:

@misc{valence_domains,
  author       = {Mattioli, Dominik},
  title        = {ADMESH Domains: A Registry of ADCIRC-Compatible Mesh Domains},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
  url          = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/domattioli/Valence},
  note         = {Version v0.4.3},
}