from pathlib import Path import xarray as xr airtemp = "airtemp" filename = "outputChunked.txt" datasetPath = Path("/home/kklenk/projects/rpp-kshook/kklenk/forcingChunked/NorthAmerica_remapped_1983-05-01-00-00-00-chunked.nc") dataset = xr.open_dataset(datasetPath) data = [] data.append(dataset.isel(hru=492001).copy()) file = open(filename, "w") for i in data[0][airtemp].values: file.write("{}\n".format(i)) file.close()