This Scientific Committee on Ocean Research (SCOR) working group focuses on addressing the following integrative questions:

• What are the key biological and chemical systems  in polar ocean environments that control atmospheric chemistry and resulting climate feedbacks?

• How does the formation, evolution, and melt of sea-ice and snow cover in the polar oceans impact emission and deposition of climatically and biogeochemically active materials?

• In what ways are these impacts similar or different between the Arctic and Southern Oceans?

CIce2Clouds aims to build a community of multidisciplinary scientists to address open science questions at the ocean - sea-ice - atmospheric  interface. 

An important outcome of this working group will be the opportunity for atmospheric and sea-ice biogeochemistry communities to come together to identify barriers to meaningful collaboration, and to create achievable approaches to address common goals and science questions. To facilitate knowledge transfer between these communities and training of early career scientists (ECS) in interdisciplinary science, we will develop a tutorial-style presentation materials, and a tutorial review paper, that describes fundamental concepts in sea-ice biogeochemistry and atmospheric chemistry for a broad scientific audience. To facilitate these efforts, we will hold open scientific workshops and organize a winter field school.