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@mraspaud -

The way to do this with xarray is:

```Python arr = xr.DataArray([[1, 2, 3]], dims=['time', 'x']) arr['time'] = np.array([1]) time_bnds = xr.DataArray([[0, 1]], dims=('time', 'nv')) arr['time'].attrs['bounds'] = 'time_bnds'

dataset = xr.Dataset({'arr': arr, 'time_bnds': time_bnds})

dataset.info() ```

``` xarray.Dataset { dimensions: nv = 2 ; time = 1 ; x = 3 ;

variables: int64 time(time) ; time:bounds = time_bnds ; int64 arr(time, x) ; int64 time_bnds(time, nv) ;

// global attributes: } ```

Note this is the same number of lines of code and is CF compliant. I personally don't see us going down the path of nesting xarray objects inside of attrs.

Is there more to discuss here or should we close this?

 
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