Hi! I’ve run into a silent problem in intake. I was trying to load a variable, v, which in the experiment I was using, comes with 2 different “cell methods”: ['time: mean', 'time: mean_pow(02)'] I was not aware and intake did not prompt me with a warning or error, it loaded it no problem and averag…

I’ll get right on this and get a fix out ASAP. Thanks for the very clear example notebook. In this case, I think we can solve the problem by forcing intake to disambiguate on cell methods. Do you have any idea whether that is going to work in general - eg. do we reliably know that if two files con…

Thank you Charles!! In this case I reliably know it is the same variable in the same grid. There’s just one cell_id, one vin the variable list and 3 (?) cell methods actually. One of them is just empty ’ ‘and I have no idea what it means. [image] I am trying to think if there would be any except…

So the way that the Builder objects that build these ESM-Datastores work is that they open every file in the directory, and extract various metadata needed for cataloguing it - all the fields you see in the datastore, basically. For variable_cell_methods, (and all the other variable_xyz fields) , t…

That sounds good to me Charles.

Once I have a working implementation of this (turns out to irritatingly complicated to implement this) I’ll generate a demo of the updated behaviour & give you a ping to check it’s exactly what it should be if thats okay!

Thank you Charles! Sorry I missed the messages above!

Sorry this is taking a while! I’ve rebuilt a catalog against a fork with the necessary changes here, which basically ‘explodes’ iterable columns (somewhat amusingly, that’s actually a technical term). The TLDR; is that previously, all cell methods would be attached to the single netCDF file entry …

I think this is above my understanding capacities these days :sweat_smile: but a solution underway sounds awesome! Thank you

Sorry, have replied in there! Fix will be in ASAP, workaround in the other thread.

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adele-morrison (Adele Morrison) 4 December 2025 05:22 13

Hey @CharlesTurner, any progress on this? Others are running into the same issue:

Thanks!

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