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