NetCDF attributes like long_name and units lost on .mean() · Issue #442 · pydata/xarray (original) (raw)

When reading in a variable from netCDF, the standard attributes like long_name, standard_name, and units are being propagated, but apparently lost when calling .load() .mean() on the DataArray.

Couldn't these CF-Highly Recommended Variable Attributes be kept during this operation?

(What to do with them afterwards, e.g. upon merge, is a different question, unresolved also in the pandas community.)

EDIT: the problem actually occurs when calling .mean() (not .load(), as originally posted).