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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/6805#issuecomment-1187922418,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/6805,1187922418,IC_kwDOAMm_X85GzkHy,13301940,2022-07-18T17:47:18Z,2022-07-18T17:47:18Z,MEMBER,"@lassiterdc, in your example above, `f_in_ncs` is just a string and you are passing this string to `xr.open_mfdataset()` which i don't think knows what to do with it. 

```python 
f_in_ncs = ""data/""
```

have you tried retrieving the list of all files under ""data/"" via the `glob` module? 

```python
import glob 
f_in_ncs = sorted(glob.glob(""data/*.nc""))

mf_ds = xr.open_mfdataset(f_in_ncs,  concat_dim = ""time"",
            chunks={'outlat':3500, 'outlon':7000, 'time':50},
            combine = ""nested"", engine = 'netcdf4')
```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1308176241