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/2368#issuecomment-415402600,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/2368,415402600,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQxNTQwMjYwMA==,6883049,2018-08-23T12:50:26Z,2018-08-23T12:50:26Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"I found this problem too long ago (see #457). Back then the workaround we implemented is to exclude the offending variable (""siglay"" or ""isobaric"" in the examples above) with the ""drop_variables"" optional argument. Of course this is not great if you want to actually use the values in the variable you are dropping. I personally don't like the notion of a ""two dimensional coordinate"", I find it confusing. However this kind of netCDFs are common, so fully supporting them in xarray would be nice. But I don't know how. Maybe just renaming the variable instead of dropping it with a ""rename_variables""? This is the only thing that comes to my mind.","{""total_count"": 2, ""+1"": 2, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,350899839