html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4068#issuecomment-633251217,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4068,633251217,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDYzMzI1MTIxNw==,22566757,2020-05-24T15:53:10Z,2020-05-24T15:53:10Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"For others reading this issue, the h5netcdf workaround was discussed in #3297, with further discussion on supporting complex numbers in netCDF in cf-convention/cf-conventions#204.

The short version: `engine=""h5netcdf"", invalid_netcdf=True` will save these files, but the netCDF-C library doesn't understand the result.  Reading with `engine=""h5netcdf""` may be able to round-trip these files, but I haven't checked that.

There is a longer discussion of why netCDF-C doesn't understand these files at Unidata/netcdf-c#267.  That specific issue is for booleans, but complex numbers are likely the same.","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,619347681