Actually, I just remembered I tried in the past to change the default in Intake-ESM to chunks="auto" and it doesn’t work well in the general case because dask auto chunking does not work with object dtype (e.g. cftime arrays).
Actually, I just remembered I tried in the past to change the default in Intake-ESM to chunks="auto" and it doesn’t work well in the general case because dask auto chunking does not work with object dtype (e.g. cftime arrays).