Data loss

When writing xarray data, the following information is irreversibly lost:

• Name of the parent dimension of a MultiIndex (only the MultiIndex levels are retained)

• Scalar coordinates (not associated with a dimension)

• Array name

• Attributes

• Data types, unless they can be automatically inferred by pandas.read_csv(). or pandas.to_datetime(). Booleans receive special treatment.

• dask chunks