Ryan Abernathey

So we have: - Numerous promising prototypes to draw from - A technical team who can write the proposal and execute the proposed work (@aurghs & @alexamici of B-open) -...

👍 This is a persistent problem for me as well. I often find myself writing a preprocessor function like this ```python def process_coords(ds, concat_dim='time', drop=True): coord_vars = [v for v...

> so you're fooling xarray into not including the time dimension in your non-time variables by making them coordinates in the above example? Exactly. They *are* coordinates. Those variables are...

But this issue raises an important basic point: we might want different behavior for variables in which `concat_dim` is already a dimension vs. variables for which it is not.

I'm glad! FWIW, I think this is a relatively simple fix within xarray. @xylar, if you are game, we would love to see a PR from you. Could be a...

Thanks for picking up this idea! I am very excited by the possibility. I would be happy to give feedback on any early prototypes that emerge.

Perhaps related to scitools/cartopy#895.

If anyone wants to play around with this, you can check out the `narr_noaa_thredds.ipynb` example notebook in this binder: https://github.com/rabernat/pangeo_esgf_demo. In that I not only crawl the metadata but actually...

I was also surprised by this behavior, since it is very different from scipy.io.netcdf_file. I spent a long time trying to hunt down a bug due to this.

As the original creator of this issue, I am pleased to see it is still alive. I am still very interested, although more for the reasons described by @niallrobinson. I...