Outstanding Issues#
Known Problems#
To be fixed
in conversion from iris cubes with from_iris
use of an unlimited_dims key currently causes an exception
in conversion to xarray with to_xarray
dataset encodings are not reproduced
most notably, the “unlimited_dims” control is missing
in conversion to/from netCDF4 files
netCDF4 performs automatic encoding/decoding of byte data to characters, triggered by the existence of an
_Encodingattribute on a character type variable. Ncdata does not currently account for this, and may fail to read/write correctly.
Incomplete Documentation#
(PLACEHOLDER: documentation is incomplete, please fix me !)
Identified Design Limitations#
Features unsupported#
There are no current plans to address these, but could be considered in future
user-defined datatypes are not supported
i.e. as introduced in NetCDF4
notably, includes compound and variable-length types
..and especially variable-length strings in variables. see : Character and String Data Handling, Data Types (dtypes)
Features planned#
Features not yet implemented, but intended for future releases
groups (not yet fully supported ?)
file output chunking control