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/1474#issuecomment-314162435,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1474,314162435,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMxNDE2MjQzNQ==,10050469,2017-07-10T16:37:45Z,2017-07-10T16:37:45Z,MEMBER,"> In this case, I don't know the name if the dimension beforehand Yes, in this case definitely a good use case for a dict and ``.loc``","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,241714748 https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1474#issuecomment-314161175,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1474,314161175,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMxNDE2MTE3NQ==,10050469,2017-07-10T16:33:05Z,2017-07-10T16:33:05Z,MEMBER,"I personally very much prefer the readability of ``.sel`` and ``.isel``, which is what I teach to my students. I don't know however what's most used amongst other xarray users","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,241714748 https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1474#issuecomment-314152374,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1474,314152374,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMxNDE1MjM3NA==,10050469,2017-07-10T16:02:48Z,2017-07-10T16:02:48Z,MEMBER,"have you tried the way it is done in the docs? http://xarray.pydata.org/en/latest/indexing.html#indexing-with-labeled-dimensions","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,241714748 https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1474#issuecomment-314112894,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1474,314112894,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMxNDExMjg5NA==,10050469,2017-07-10T13:55:41Z,2017-07-10T13:55:41Z,MEMBER,"Somewhat not a direct answer to your question, but I see you are reading in WRF files. Have you considered using Salem's [open_wrf_dataset](http://salem.readthedocs.io/en/latest/wrf.html) on your files? It will solve some time related issues that these files have","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,241714748