Add xESMF regridder

[bouweandela]

Description

Add xESMF regriding scheme for the regrid preprocessor.

Example usage in preprocessor in recipe:

regrid:
  target_grid: 1x1
  scheme:
    reference: esmvalcore.preprocessor.regrid_schemes:xESMF
    method: bilinear
    periodic: true

Link to documentation: https://esmvaltool--2433.org.readthedocs.build/projects/ESMValCore/en/2433/api/esmvalcore.regridding_schemes.html#esmvalcore.preprocessor.regrid_schemes.xESMF

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Attention: Patch coverage is 33.33333% with 26 lines in your changes are missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 94.34%. Comparing base (2fc8761) to head (b639462).

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[flicj191]

message for myself @flicj191 as I want to try to use this regridder. let me know if you would like me to do anything