ENH: Add clients for accessing AWS data

Author: dopplershift

examples/remote/basic.py

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+# Copyright (c) 2023 MetPy Developers.
+# Distributed under the terms of the BSD 3-Clause License.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+"""
+==================
+Remote Data Access
+==================
+
+Use MetPy to access data hosted in known AWS S3 buckets
+"""
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta
+
+from metpy.remote import GOESArchive, NEXRADLevel2Archive, NEXRADLevel3Archive
+
+###################
+# NEXRAD Level 2
+
+# Get the nearest product to a time
+prod = NEXRADLevel2Archive().get_product('KTLX', datetime(2013, 5, 22, 21, 53))
+
+# Open using MetPy's Level2File class
+l2 = prod.access()
+
+###################
+# NEXRAD Level 3
+start = datetime(2022, 10, 30, 15)
+end = start + timedelta(hours=2)
+products = NEXRADLevel3Archive().get_range('FTG', 'N0B', start, end)
+
+# Get all the file names--could also get a file-like object or open with MetPy Level3File
+print([prod.name for prod in products])
+
+################
+# GOES Archives
+prod = GOESArchive(19).get_product('ABI-L1b-RadC', band=2)
+
+# Retrieve using xarray + netcdf-c's S3 support
+nc = prod.access()

src/metpy/remote/__init__.py

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+# Copyright (c) 2023 MetPy Developers.
+# Distributed under the terms of the BSD 3-Clause License.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+"""Provide tools for accessing data from remote sources.
+
+This currently includes clients for searching and downloading data from public cloud buckets.
+"""
+
+from .aws import *  # noqa: F403
+from ..package_tools import set_module
+
+__all__ = aws.__all__[:]  # pylint: disable=undefined-variable
+
+set_module(globals())