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One last observation. If I just remove dtype from the original encoding and apply it to the dataset before writing to a netcdf, it works fine. Otherwise, I have the issue if I leave dtype in.

```python

This works

encoding = {'original_shape': (720, 109, 245), 'missing_value': -32767, '_FillValue': -32767, 'scale_factor': 0.0009673806360857793, 'add_offset': 282.08577424425226} python

This does not work

encoding = {'original_shape': (720, 109, 245), 'missing_value': -32767, 'dtype': 'int16', # the original form says it should be 'dtype': dtype('int16'), but this causes an error for me, whereas this form works fine to change between data types '_FillValue': -32767, 'scale_factor': 0.0009673806360857793, 'add_offset': 282.08577424425226} ```

 
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