diff --git a/orchestration/flows/bl832/nersc.py b/orchestration/flows/bl832/nersc.py
index f5850a61..d1bac0b4 100644
--- a/orchestration/flows/bl832/nersc.py
+++ b/orchestration/flows/bl832/nersc.py
@@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ def build_multi_resolution(
 --volume {pscratch_path}/8.3.2:/alsdata \
 --volume {pscratch_path}/8.3.2:/alsuser/ \
 {multires_image} \
-bash -c "python tiff_to_zarr.py {recon_path} --raw_file {raw_path}"
+bash -c "python -m pip install --user --no-deps 'ngff-zarr==0.39.0' && python tiff_to_zarr.py {recon_path} --raw_file {raw_path}"
 
 date
 """
diff --git a/scripts/perlmutter/tiff_to_zarr.py b/scripts/perlmutter/tiff_to_zarr.py
index e07c6e0e..8a6de4fa 100644
--- a/scripts/perlmutter/tiff_to_zarr.py
+++ b/scripts/perlmutter/tiff_to_zarr.py
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ def main():
     image.scale = read_pixelsize_from_hdf5(args.raw_file)
     image.axes_units = {'x': 'micrometer', 'y': 'micrometer', 'z': 'micrometer'}
     multiscales = to_multiscales(image, method=Methods.DASK_IMAGE_GAUSSIAN, cache=False)
-    to_ngff_zarr(zarr_dir, multiscales)
+    to_ngff_zarr(zarr_dir, multiscales, version="0.4")
     print('NGFF Zarr created')
 
     # Set permissions for the output directory and its contents