diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8203b60352f..953d29e53d3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ entrypoints~=0.4
 google-api-core~=2.7.3
 google-auth~=2.6.6
 googleapis-common-protos~=1.56.0
-h5netcdf~=0.15.0
+h5netcdf~=1.4.0
 h5py~=3.6.0
 idna~=3.3
 importlib-metadata==4.8.1; python_version<'3.8'