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but it should respect the scope of netCDF dimensions

Just so we're all using the same terminology, you are actually referring to "coordinates", not dimensions. In your example above, tss is getting the correct dimension (time2) but the corresponding coordinate (time2) is not loaded. In netCDF/xarray dimensions are just names for individual axes.

The fundamental issue is that we don't have any machinery in xarray to look outside of a single netCDF group when opening a dataset. That is the common piece to #1092. 

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