Open DamienIrving opened 8 years ago
It turns out that this is due to a poor choice made in netCDF4-Python which has now been fixed: https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf4-python/issues/529
The short answer is that you should either downgrade netCDF4-Python to v1.1.7 or earlier or upgrade to v1.2.3 or later.
When using
iris.save()
to write iris cubes out to netCDF, some of the attributes are designated as "string". e.g:Iris seems to have no problem with these attributes (i.e. I can read the netCDF file with iris), but other applications (e.g. cdo) sometimes do.