This collaborative article discusses the opportunities and challenges of; adopting Integrated, Coordinated, Open, and Networked (ICON) principles; in atmospheric sciences. From the global nature of the atmosphere, there; has always been a need for atmospheric science to be an ICON science.; With the help of evolving technology, it is possible to go further in; implementing and spreading the ICON principles for productive global; collaboration. In particular, technology transfer and applications could; be approached with reproducibility in mind, and data-sharing; infrastructure could enable easier and better international; collaboration. There are, however, various challenges in following the; ICON principles in the collection, quality control, and maintenance of; data, and the publication of results in a systematic way. Moreover, the; extent of such issues varies geographically and hence poses different; challenges to ICON principles. In this commentary article, we briefly; state our perspectives on the state of ICON, challenges we have met, and; future opportunities. Furthermore, we describe how atmospheric science; researchers have benefited from these collaborative multi-dimensional; approaches that fulfill the core goal of ICON.
