issue_comments: 283492897

@gerritholl Interesting! The difficulty I am seeing with this approach is that the units apply only to the main data array, and not the coordinates. In a scientific application, the coordinates are generally physical quantities with units as well. If we want xarray with units to be really useful for scientific computation, we need to have the coordinate arrays be unitful 'quantities' too, rather than tacking the units on as an attribute of xarray.DataArray. I tinkered with making the 'units' attribute into a dictionary, with units for each coordinate (and for the data) as key-value pairs, but it is very cumbersome and goes against my philosophy (for instance, extracting a coordinate from a DataArray leaves it without units).