Add dimensions via nomenclature.yaml (#53)

* Add dimensions via nomenclature.yaml * Add file link to Readme
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 ## Overview
 
-This repository contains the scenario validation workflow
-for the [ARIADNE project](https://www.pik-potsdam.de/de/institut/abteilungen/transformationspfade/projekte/ariadne).
+This repository contains the scenario validation workflow and codelists (variables,
+regions and other dimensions) for the [ARIADNE project](https://www.pik-potsdam.de/de/institut/abteilungen/transformationspfade/projekte/ariadne).
+
+> [!TIP]
+> For *users not comfortable working with GitHub repositories and yaml files*,
+> the definitions for this project are available for download as an xlsx spreadsheet
+> at https://files.ece.iiasa.ac.at/ariadne-intern/ariadne-intern-template.xlsx.
+
 
 The main entry point is the `workflow.py` script, which has a function
 that takes an **pyam.IamDataFrame** as argument and returns a modified instance (if validation is successful)

diff --git a/nomenclature.yaml b/nomenclature.yaml
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+dimensions:
+  - region
+  - variable
+  - scenario
+  - subannual
+