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

    • issue#43

  • in conversion to xarray with to_xarray

    • dataset encodings are not reproduced

    • most notably, the “unlimited_dims” control is missing

    • issue#66

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 : string_and_character_data

Features planned#

Features not yet implemented, but intended for future releases

  • groups (not yet fully supported ?)

  • file output chunking control