Abstract
Turbulence-driven mixing is an essential mechanism that regulates energy transformations in the ocean and its role in the global climate. Acting as a pathway for the transfers of heat, mass and momentum in the ocean, turbulent mixing plays a vital role in maintaining the global overturning circulation, facilitating atmospheric carbon and heat uptake, and sustaining primary productivity. Understanding the energetics, scales and boundary layer interactions, in the fullest range of turbulence intensity conditions, is of fundamental importance to forecast ocean evolution in climate scenarios.