Jeff Whitaker

I think all the requested changes have been made and this PR is ready to go once @RussTreadon-NOAA and @ClaraDraper-NOAA finish their reviews.

> @jswhit that change goes along with this one: [jswhit2@8167654](https://github.com/jswhit2/global-workflow/commit/8167654653d5f97a8bb625840208e87badae4f66). The latter creates links from the `build_gsinfo` contents (`satinfo`, `ozinfo`, etc) to `parm/gsinfo` (I made some additional commits after this...

> @jswhit2 @ClaraDraper-NOAA I ran a test case that generates the 2m observation info files along with the other GSI *info files for a C96 analysis and for cycle 2025090100....

I think it's just the GSI-fix hash in GSI that needs updating. @DavidHuber-NOAA could you update the hash in your [fork](https://github.com/DavidHuber-NOAA/GSI/tree/feature/update_build_gsinfo) and issue a PR? Once that is merged I...

I'd rather wait and see how https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/9154 turns out

there is one for macos 14 at https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/58/3e/5736880a607edabca4c4fc49f1ccf9a2bb2485f84478e4cd19ba11c3b803/netCDF4-1.7.2-cp313-cp313-macosx_14_0_arm64.whl Does this one not work for you?

Note that we cannot provide macosx 13 arm wheels since github actions only has macox 14 arm platform support (https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/using-github-hosted-runners/about-github-hosted-runners)

since it works if you used fixed dimensions, it's likely a bug in the netcdf-c lib

netcdf4-python 1.5.8 wheels used an earlier version of the C lib (nothing in the python interface for vlen str variables has changed)

I think that would be a good idea - especially if you could translate your example into C and include that in the github issue.