Disappearance of mountain glaciers and formation/expansion of glacial lakes are among the most distinguishable and dynamic impacts of climate warming in the Himalayas. The present research focuses on the identification of potential sites for future lake formation in the 65 selected study glaciers of Chandra basin located in the western Himalayas. The study adopted stress-driven, physics-based GlabTop2_IITB model to obtain the ice-thickness distribution, which was then used to extract the bedrock topography. Based on the overdeepenings determined from the derived glacier bed topographies, a total of 350 potential future glacial lakes (PFGLs) were identified, and a detailed high-resolution database of these lakes was generated. The identified PFGLs were found to occupy an area of 49.56 km², corresponding to 8.4% of the current total area of the 65 study glaciers (591 km²). The total storage volume of these PFGLs was estimated as 1.08 ± 0.16 km³. In our study region, 20 PFGLs were identified as potentially hazardous in the event of glacial lake outburst flood occurrence, and their combined storage volume was found to be more than 10⁶ m³, which calls for continuous monitoring of the glaciers in this region.

高山冰川的消失和冰川湖的形成/扩张是喜马拉雅山脉气候变暖最明显和最动态的影响之一。本研究的重点是在喜马拉雅山西部的钱德拉盆地的65个选定的研究冰川中确定未来湖泊形成的潜在地点。该研究采用基于应力的，基于物理学的GlabTop2_IITB模型获得冰层厚度分布，然后将其用于提取基岩地形。根据从得出的冰川床地形中得出的过深现象，总共确定了350个潜在的未来冰川湖泊（PFGL），并生成了这些湖泊的详细高分辨率数据库。发现已确定的PFGL占地49.56 km ²，相当于65个研究冰川（591 km ²）当前总面积的8.4％。这些PFGL的总存储量估计为1.08±0.16 km ³。在我们的研究区域中，在冰川湖爆发洪灾事件中，有20种PFGL被确定为潜在危险，发现它们的总存储量超过10 ⁶ m ³，这要求对该区域的冰川进行连续监测。