“…Sharp wind and temperature gradients such as those underlying the Mesquita event exist throughout the atmosphere at scales below the resolution limit of GCMs, and the resulting Ri-critical shear layers produce local instabilities everywhere they occur. Such events arise in multi-scale environments exhibiting what are described as "sheet and layer" structures, which occur throughout the atmosphere into the MLT and which modeling reveals to be prolific sources of local KHI , see for example, Kantha et al (2017), Doddi et al (2021), Barat (1982), Sato and Woodman (1982), Lehmacher et al (2011), and R. L. Mesquita et al (2020). Though ubiquitous, GCM resolution cannot capture these dynamics , and their mixing contributions remain unaddressed.…”