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Hi Jamie, You've found a bug! Or—at least—an undocumented deficiency. As it turns out, it currently isn't possible to write Variables with ENUM DataTypes to NetCDF-4. I've made a note of the issue and we'll try to get a fix for it soon. If you have a GitHub account, you can follow our progress and subscribe to notifications here: https://github.com/Unidata/thredds/issues/191 Cheers, Christian Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: KPZ-208087 Department: Support netCDF Java Priority: Normal Status: Closed