If you search the document for chunksizes you get a lot of stuff about dask chunk sizes first. Can be confusing if you are interested in variable chunksizes.
The method v.data.set_nc_hdf5_chunksizes actually sets the chunk shape, not the volume/size.
E.g. the word size is clearly about the volume, as can be seen from the documentation:
https://docs.unidata.ucar.edu/nug/current/netcdf_perf_chunking.html says "Currently the netCDF default chunk size is 4MiB The current default chunking strategy of the netCDF library is to balance access time alongany of a variable's dimensions, by using chunk shapes similar to the shape of the entire variable but small enough that the resulting chunk size is less than or equal to the default chunk size."
v.data.set_nc_hdf5_chunksizesactually sets the chunk shape, not the volume/size.E.g. the word size is clearly about the volume, as can be seen from the documentation: