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+message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
+authors:
+- family-names: "Hoyer"
+  given-names: "Stephan"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5207-0380"
+- family-names: "Roos"
+  given-names: "Maximilian"
+- family-names: "Joseph"
+  given-names: "Hamman"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7479-8439"
+- family-names: "Magin"
+  given-names: "Justus"
+- family-names: "Cherian"
+  given-names: "Deepak"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6861-8734"
+- family-names: "Fitzgerald"
+  given-names: "Clark"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3446-6389"
+- family-names: "Hauser"
+  given-names: "Mathias"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0057-4878"
+- family-names: "Fujii"
+  given-names: "Keisuke"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0390-9984"
+- family-names: "Maussion"
+  given-names: "Fabien"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3211-506X"
+- family-names: "Imperiale"
+  given-names: "Guido"
+- family-names: "Clark"
+  given-names: "Spencer"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5595-7895"
+- family-names: "Kleeman"
+  given-names: "Alex"
+- family-names: "Nicholas"
+  given-names: "Thomas"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2176-0530"
+- family-names: "Kluyver"
+  given-names: "Thomas"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4020-6364"
+- family-names: "Westling"
+  given-names: "Jimmy"
+- family-names: "Munroe"
+  given-names: "James"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9098-6309"
+- family-names: "Amici"
+  given-names: "Alessandro"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1778-4505"
+- family-names: "Barghini"
+  given-names: "Aureliana"
+- family-names: "Banihirwe"
+  given-names: "Anderson"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6583-571X"
+- family-names: "Bell"
+  given-names: "Ray"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2623-0587"
+- family-names: "Hatfield-Dodds"
+  given-names: "Zac"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8646-8362"
+- family-names: "Abernathey"
+  given-names: "Ryan"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5999-4917"
+- family-names: "Bovy"
+  given-names: "Benoît"
+- family-names: "Omotani"
+  given-names: "John"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3156-8227"
+- family-names: "Mühlbauer"
+  given-names: "Kai"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6599-1034"
+- family-names: "Roszko"
+  given-names: "Maximilian K."
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9424-2526"
+- family-names: "Wolfram"
+  given-names: "Phillip J."
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5971-4241"
+title: "xarray"
+doi: 10.5281/zenodo.598201
+url: "https://github.com/pydata/xarray"
+preferred-citation:
+  type: article
+  authors:
+  - family-names: "Hoyer"
+    given-names: "Stephan"
+    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5207-0380"
+  - family-names: "Joseph"
+    given-names: "Hamman"
+    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7479-8439"
+  doi: "10.5334/jors.148"
+  journal: "Journal of Open Research Software"
+  month: 4
+  title: "xarray: N-D labeled Arrays and Datasets in Python"
+  volume: 5
+  issue: 1
+  year: 2017