- Mar 2011: 1st G-VAP Workshop held at ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
- Sep 2012: 2nd G-VAP Workshop held at DWD/CM-SAF, Offenbach, Germany
- Feb 2013: G-VAP metadata profile („Data Fact Sheet“, DFS) established.
- Mar 2013: G-VAP website made available under http://www.gewex-vap.org.
- Apr 2013: G-VAP presented at the GCOS AOPC meeting.
- Jul 2013: Online metadata registration of participating data records initiated.
- Aug 2013: Publication of consolidated G-VAP assessment plan.
- Sep 2013: G-VAP presentation at GDAP/GHP meeting.
- Sep 2013: G-VAP presentation at EUMETSAT/AMS conference.
- Sep/Oct 2013: 3rd G-VAP workshop held at CIRA, Fort Collins, USA.
- Mar/Apr 2014: G-VAP presented at the 19th International TOVS Study Conference (ITSC-19), Jeju Island, South Korea.
- Oct 2014: 4th G-VAP workshop held at Free University, Berlin, Germany.