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It's only an dtype=object array externally: internally, the data is still stored as a pandas.PeriodIndex. I think you'll find that inside ref_var._data.array .

Potentially we could some sort of API for surfacing this information, e.g., a pandas_dtype property to xarray.Variable.

 
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