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Creating unlimited dimensions with xarray.Dataset.to_netcdf

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@shoyer you wrote in a comment on another issue

xray doesn’t use or set unlimited dimensions. (It’s pretty irrelevant for us, given that NumPy arrays can be stored in either row-major or column-major order.)

I see that xarray does not need UNLIMITED dimensions internally. But I need to create a netCDF file that I subsequently can append to (along the time dimension, in this case). Can this be done?

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Created 7 years ago
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jhammancommented, Dec 14, 2016

All - I’m actively working on this. I have an initial implementation and will get it cleaned up here in the next few days. Stay tuned.

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gnursercommented, Dec 10, 2016

The ability to set unlimited dimension would be really useful for me as well.

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