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/1234#issuecomment-275721597,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1234,275721597,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDI3NTcyMTU5Nw==,1217238,2017-01-27T17:23:03Z,2017-01-27T17:23:03Z,MEMBER,"You're not the first person to be confused about this (see https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1217). This is indeed working as expected, though maybe not in the most useful way. `where` works by broadcasting its arguments, and when `ds.c` (along the `a` dimension) gets broadcasted with `ds.y` (along the `b` dimension), the result gets the union of both dimensions. Alternatively, we might simply skip variables in Dataset.where if they don't have overlapping dimensions. The logic gets a good deal more complex, though. Currently `where` is a thin wrapper around `np.where`.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,203630267