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Freeboard and thickness are two important parameters in sea ice change research. Satellite altimetry can provide long-time and large-scale sea ice monitoring. We estimated the Arctic sea ice freeboard and its variations for the period from 2002 to 2012 from Envisat satellite altimetry data. To remove geoid undulations, we reprocessed the Envisat data using a newly developed mean sea surface (MSS) model, named DTU18. Residuals in the static geoid were removed by using the moving average technique. We then determined the local sea surface height and sea ice freeboard from the Envisat elevation profiles. We validated our freeboard estimates using two radar freeboard products from the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), as well as the Operation IceBridge (OIB) sea ice freeboard product. The overall differences between our estimates and the CCI and AWI data were 0.11 \u00b1 0.14 m and 0.12 \u00b1 0.14 m, respectively. Our estimates show good agreement with the three products for areas of freeboard larger than 0.2 m and smaller than 0.3 m. For areas of freeboard larger than 0.3 m, our estimates correlate better with OIB freeboard than with CCI and AWI. The variations in the Arctic sea ice thickness are discussed. The ice freeboard reached its minimum in 2008 during the research period. Sharp decreases were found in the winters of 2005 and 2007.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13081414","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,7]],"date-time":"2021-04-07T11:31:59Z","timestamp":1617795119000},"page":"1414","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Arctic Sea Ice Freeboard Retrieval from Envisat Altimetry Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7436-2504","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shengkai","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Yue","family":"Xuan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Jiaxing","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Tong","family":"Geng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Xiao","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3742-9380","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Feng","family":"Xiao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"221","DOI":"10.1007\/s00382-003-0332-6","article-title":"Polar amplification of climate change in coupled models","volume":"21","author":"Holland","year":"2003","journal-title":"Clim. 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