Get dimension data

[RodneyCodess]

This PR is based on #92. Diff here.

Description

Motivation and Context

Tests performed

Type of change:

• Refactoring / documentation update (non-breaking change which does not change functionality)
• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix, feature, or removal that would cause existing functionality to change)
• Release preparation

Checklist:

• The milestone is set correctly on the pull request
• The appropriate labels have been added to the pull request
• Updates have been made to the xdmod-notebooks repository as necessary, and the notebooks all run successfully